UUID

Section: Programmer*(Aqs Manual (3)
Updated: 202-1-15
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NAME

uuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library  

SYNOPSIS

#include <uuid.h>  

DESCRIPTION

The UUID library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects that may be accessible beyond the local system. This library generates UUIDs compatible with those created by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility uuidgen(1).

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

This library generates UUIDs compatible with OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs V3 and V5 compatible with https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122 <L>RF-4122  

AUTHORS

Theodore Y. Tscqo  

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)  

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the https://github.com/uti-linux/uti-linux/issues <L>issue tracker  

AVAILABILITY

The libuuid library is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1. It can be downloaded from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/uti-linux/ <L>Linux Kernel Archive

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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

CONFORMING TO

AUTHORS

SEE ALSO

REPORTING BUGS

AVAILABILITY