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UUID(3) Libuuid API UUID(3)
uuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library
#include <uuid.h>
The UUID library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects
that may be accessible beyond the local system. This library
generates UUIDs compatible with those created by the Open Software
Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility
uuidgen.
The UUIDs generated by this library can be reasonably expected to be
unique within a system, and unique across all systems. They could be
used, for instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple
web servers without communication between the servers, and without
fear of a name clash.
OSF DCE 1.1
Theodore Y. Ts'o
libuuid is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is
available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
uuid_clear(3), uuid_compare(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3),
uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3)
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util-linux May 2009 UUID(3)
Pages that refer to this page: uuid_clear(3), uuid_compare(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3), uuidd(8)
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