LIBUUIDSection: C Library Functions (3)Updated: February 2004 |
NAME
libuuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier librarySYNOPSIS
#include <uuid/uuid.h>DESCRIPTION
The 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 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 1.1AUTHOR
libuuid was written by Theodore Y. Ts'o for the ext2 filesystem utilties.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 COPYING. 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)