libuuid

LIBUUID(3)							   LIBUUID(3)



NAME
       libuuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library

SYNOPSIS
       #include <uuid/uuid.h>

       cc file.c -luuid

DESCRIPTION
       The libuuid library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects
       that may be accessible beyond the local system.	The Linux implementa-
       tion  was  created  to uniquely identify ext2 filesystems created by a
       machine.	 This library generates UUIDs compatible with  those  created
       by  the	Open Software Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environ-
       ment (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
       libuuid was written by Theodore Y. Ts’o for the ext2 filesystem	util-
       ties.

AVAILABILITY
       libuuid	is  part  of  the  e2fsprogs  package  and  is available from
       http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/

COPYING
       libuuid is available under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
       License	(LGPL),	 version 2 (or at your discretion any later version).
       A copy of the LGPL should be included with this library	in  the	 file
       COPYING.	 If not, write to
	      Free Software Foundation, Inc.
	      59 Temple Place
	      Suite 330
	      Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

       or visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#LGPL

SEE ALSO
       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)



E2fsprogs version 1.35		February 2004			   LIBUUID(3)