NAME

UUID - Perl extension for using UUID interfaces as defined in e2fsprogs.

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}

LICENSE

This library is licensed under the Perl Artistic License. Details of this license can be found within the 'License' text file

AUTHOR

Joseph N. Hall <joseph.nathan.hall@gmail.com>

Colin Faber <cfaber@clusterfs.com>

Peter J. Braam <braam@mountainviewdata.com>

SEE ALSO

perl(1).