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 1.1
AUTHOR
libuuid
was written by Theodore Y. Ts'o for the ext2 filesystem utilties.
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
