From 7b4c7a681cc4c0a53dc8a8baf4853e921cfbf5de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bigbiff Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 19:44:14 -0500 Subject: Update blkid to 2.25.0 Break libblkid into 4 libraries: libblkid, libuuid, libutil-linux and libfdisk. This should help in later patch updates. Change-Id: I680d9a7feb031e5c29a603e9c58aff4b65826262 --- libblkid/libuuid/man/uuid.3 | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) create mode 100644 libblkid/libuuid/man/uuid.3 (limited to 'libblkid/libuuid/man/uuid.3') diff --git a/libblkid/libuuid/man/uuid.3 b/libblkid/libuuid/man/uuid.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..37b04995e --- /dev/null +++ b/libblkid/libuuid/man/uuid.3 @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +.\" Copyright 1999 Andreas Dilger (adilger@enel.ucalgary.ca) +.\" +.\" %Begin-Header% +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, and the entire permission notice in its entirety, +.\" including the disclaimer of warranties. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote +.\" products derived from this software without specific prior +.\" written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED +.\" WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES +.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ALL OF +.\" WHICH ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE +.\" LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT +.\" OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR +.\" BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF +.\" LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT +.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE +.\" USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH +.\" DAMAGE. +.\" %End-Header% +.\" +.\" 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 +.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" +OSF DCE 1.1 +.SH AUTHOR +Theodore Y.\& Ts'o +.SH AVAILABILITY +.B libuuid +is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from +ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. +.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) -- cgit v1.2.3