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NAME

UUID - Perl extension for using UUID interfaces as defined in e2fsprogs. On Windows systems it uses native RCP library, on other systems the implementation uses libuuid library.

SYNOPSIS

  use UUID;
  UUID::generate($uuid); # generates a 128 bit uuid
  UUID::unparse($uuid, $string); # change $uuid to 36 byte string
  $rc = UUID::parse($string, $uuid); # map string to UUID, return -1 on error

DESCRIPTION

With these 3 routines UUID''s can easily be generated and parsed/un-parsed.

EXPORT

UUID::{generate, parse, unparse}

AUTHOR

Peter J. Braam <braam@clusterfs.com> Lukas Zapletal <Lukas.Zapletal@seznam.cz>

SEE ALSO

perl(1).

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