.\" Copyright 1999 Andreas Dilger (adilger@enel.ucalgary.ca)
.\"
.\" This man page was created for libuuid.so.1.1 from e2fsprogs-1.14.
.\" 
.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
.\" 
.\" 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
.nf
.B #include <uuid/uuid.h>
.sp
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)