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.\" Copyright 1999 Andreas Dilger (adilger@enel.ucalgary.ca)
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.\"
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.\" This man page was created for libuuid.so.1.1 from e2fsprogs-1.14.
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.\"
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.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
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.\"
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.\" Created Wed Mar 10 17:42:12 1999, Andreas Dilger
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.TH LIBUUID 3 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@"
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.SH NAME
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libuuid \- DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <uuid/uuid.h>
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.sp
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.B cc
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.I file.c
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.B \-luuid
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B libuuid
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library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects that may be
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accessible beyond the local system. The Linux implementation was created
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to uniquely identify ext2 filesystems created by a machine. This library
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generates UUIDs compatible with those created by the Open Software
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Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility
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.BR uuidgen .
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.sp
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The UUIDs generated by this library can be reasonably expected to be
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unique within a system, and unique across all systems. They could
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be used, for instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple
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web servers without communication between the servers, and without fear
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of a name clash.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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OSF DCE 1.1
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.SH AUTHOR
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.B libuuid
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was written by Theodore Y. Ts'o for the ext2 filesystem utilties.
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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.B libuuid
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is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from
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.UR http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
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http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
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.UE
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.UE
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR uuid_clear (3),
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.BR uuid_compare (3),
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.BR uuid_copy (3),
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.BR uuid_generate (3),
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.BR uuid_is_null (3),
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.BR uuid_parse (3),
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.BR uuid_time (3),
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.BR uuid_unparse (3)
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