1The UUID library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects 2that may be accessible beyond the local system. This library 3generates UUIDs compatible with those created by the Open Software 4Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility 5uuidgen. 6 7The UUIDs generated by this library can be reasonably expected to be 8unique within a system, and unique across all systems. They could 9be used, for instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple 10web servers without communication between the servers, and without fear 11of a name clash. 12