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UUID(3)                                                                                              UUID(3)



NAME
       uuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library

SYNOPSIS
       #include <uuid/uuid.h>

DESCRIPTION
       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  Foun-dation Foundation
       dation (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.

CONFORMING TO
       OSF DCE 1.1

AUTHOR
       Theodore Y. Ts'o

AVAILABILITY
       http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/

SEE ALSO
       uuid_clear(3),   uuid_compare(3),  uuid_copy(3),  uuid_generate(3),  uuid_is_null(3),  uuid_parse(3),
       uuid_unparse(3)



1.36                                             April 2004                                          UUID(3)

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