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8 .TH LIBUUID 3 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@"
10 libuuid \- DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library
13 .B #include <uuid/uuid.h>
21 library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects that may be
22 accessible beyond the local system. The Linux implementation was created
23 to uniquely identify ext2 filesystems created by a machine. This library
24 generates UUIDs compatible with those created by the Open Software
25 Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility
28 The UUIDs generated by this library can be reasonably expected to be
29 unique within a system, and unique across all systems. They could
30 be used, for instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple
31 web servers without communication between the servers, and without fear
37 was written by Theodore Y. Ts'o for the ext2 filesystem utilties.
40 is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available for anonymous ftp
41 from tsx\-11.mit.edu (and its mirrors) in /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.
46 .BR uuid_generate (3),