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 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
       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 COPY-
       ING.  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 1.32           November 2002                      LIBUUID(3)