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This is stand-alone package for libuuid, a part of e2fsprogs package.
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The libuuid library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects that
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may be accessible beyond the local system. The Linux implementation was
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created to uniquely identify ext2 filesystems created by a machine. This
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library generates UUIDs compatible with those created by the Open Software
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Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility uuidgen.
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The UUIDs generated by this library can be reasonably expected to be unique
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within a system, and unique across all systems. They could be used, for
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instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple web servers
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without communication between the servers, and without fear of a name clash.
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