osx man page for uuid

Query: uuid

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UUID(3) 						     Library Functions Manual							   UUID(3)

NAME
uuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library
SYNOPSIS
#include <uuid/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. 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 1.1
AUTHOR
Theodore Y. Ts'o
AVAILABILITY
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ <http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/>
SEE ALSO
uuid_clear(3), uuid_compare(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_unparse(3) 1.36 April 2004 UUID(3)
Related Man Pages
uuid(3) - mojave
libuuid(3) - redhat
uuid_time(3) - redhat
uuid(3) - debian
uuid(3) - osx
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