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+.\" Copyright 1999 Andreas Dilger (adilger@enel.ucalgary.ca)
+.\"
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+.\" Created Wed Mar 10 17:42:12 1999, Andreas Dilger
+.TH UUID 3 "May 2009" "util-linux" "Libuuid API"
+.SH NAME
+uuid \- DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B #include <uuid.h>
+.SH 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
+.BR uuidgen .
+.sp
+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.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
+This library generates UUIDs compatible with OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs
+V3 and V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
+.SH AUTHORS
+Theodore Y.\& Ts'o
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR uuid_clear (3),
+.BR uuid_compare (3),
+.BR uuid_copy (3),
+.BR uuid_generate (3),
+.BR uuid_is_null (3),
+.BR uuid_parse (3),
+.BR uuid_time (3),
+.BR uuid_unparse (3)
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+.B libuuid
+is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from
+https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.