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libuuid(3LIB)

Name

libuuid - UUID library

Synopsis

cc [ flag... ] file... –luuid [ library... ]

#include uuid/uuid.h

Description

The functions in this library perform operations on a universally unique identifier (UUID).

Flags for compiling and linking programs using this library may be obtained by using pkg-config(1) with the library name “uuid”. For example:

% pkg-config --libs uuid
-luuid

INTERFACES

The shared object libuuid.so.1 provides the public interfaces defined below. See intro(3) for additional information on shared object interfaces.

uuid_clear uuid_compare uuid_copy uuid_generate uuid_generate_random uuid_generate_time uuid_is_null uuid_parse uuid_time uuid_unparse uuid_unparse_lower uuid_unparse_upper

Files

/lib/libuuid.so.1

32–bit shared object

/lib/64/libuuid.so.1

64–bit shared object

Attributes

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Availability system/library Interface Stability Committed MT-Level Safe

See Also

uuid_clear(3UUID), intro(3), attributes(7)