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| .TH UUID 3 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@" |
| .SH NAME |
| uuid \- DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B #include <uuid/uuid.h> |
| .SH 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 |
| Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility |
| .BR uuidgen . |
| .sp |
| 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. |
| .SH "CONFORMING TO" |
| OSF DCE 1.1 |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| Theodore Y. Ts'o |
| .SH AVAILABILITY |
| The UUID library is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from |
| .UR http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ |
| http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ |
| .UE |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR uuid_clear (3), |
| .BR uuid_compare (3), |
| .BR uuid_copy (3), |
| .BR uuid_generate (3), |
| .BR uuid_is_null (3), |
| .BR uuid_parse (3), |
| .BR uuid_time (3), |
| .BR uuid_unparse (3) |
