| .\" Copyright 1999 Andreas Dilger (adilger@enel.ucalgary.ca) |
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| .\" This man page was created for libuuid.so.1.1 from e2fsprogs-1.14. |
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| .\" Created Wed Mar 10 17:42:12 1999, Andreas Dilger |
| .TH LIBUUID 3 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@" |
| .SH NAME |
| libuuid \- DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B #include <uuid/uuid.h> |
| .sp |
| .B cc |
| .I file.c |
| .B \-luuid |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| The |
| .B libuuid |
| library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects that may be |
| accessible beyond the local system. The Linux implementation 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 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 |
| .B libuuid |
| was written by Theodore Y. Ts'o for the ext2 filesystem utilties. |
| .SH AVAILABILITY |
| .B libuuid |
| is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available for anonymous ftp |
| from tsx\-11.mit.edu (and its mirrors) in /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs. |
| .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) |