redhat man page for libuuid

LIBUUID(3)						     Library Functions Manual							LIBUUID(3)

NAME
       libuuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library

SYNOPSIS
       #include <uuid/uuid.h>

       cc file.c -luuid

DESCRIPTION
       The libuuid library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects that may be accessible beyond the local system.  The Linux implemen-
       tation 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 1.1

AUTHOR
       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/ <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 <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)

E2fsprogs version 1.32						   November 2002							LIBUUID(3)