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diff --git a/misc/libuuid/pkg-descr b/misc/libuuid/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1e2b112133b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/libuuid/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +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 +uuidgen. + +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. |