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| author | Thomas Doerfler <Thomas.Doerfler@embedded-brains.de> | 2009-05-06 11:27:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas Doerfler <Thomas.Doerfler@embedded-brains.de> | 2009-05-06 11:27:39 +0000 |
| commit | 1df2277d7567e221616591012abea679c9d20a9a (patch) | |
| tree | 83b522520c5660d4989300db23ea5df9c5f3a5de /cpukit | |
| parent | New. (diff) | |
| download | rtems-1df2277d7567e221616591012abea679c9d20a9a.tar.bz2 | |
added cpukit/libmisc/uuid/README
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| -rw-r--r-- | cpukit/libmisc/uuid/README | 14 |
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diff --git a/cpukit/ChangeLog b/cpukit/ChangeLog index 46678d1102..c7ad41f48a 100644 --- a/cpukit/ChangeLog +++ b/cpukit/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-05-06 Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> + + * libmisc/uuid/README: New file. + 2009-05-05 Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com> * rtems/include/rtems/rtems/part.h, @@ -16,9 +20,6 @@ * score/include/rtems/system.h: Added RTEMS_COMPILER_DEPRECATED_ATTRIBUTE define. - -2009-05-05 Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> - * include/rtems/endian.h: Added functions to translate integers to/from byte streams. * libnetworking/lib/ftpfs.c: Added timeout for active data connection diff --git a/cpukit/libmisc/uuid/README b/cpukit/libmisc/uuid/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6b5c9eee97 --- /dev/null +++ b/cpukit/libmisc/uuid/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +uuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library + +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. + +This code is from the E2fsprogs project: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net. +The package was e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.5.tar.gz. |