The
.B uuidd
daemon is used by the UUID library to generate
-universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), especially time-based UUID's
+universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), especially time-based UUIDs
in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the face of large
-numbers of threads trying to grab UUID's running on different CPU's.
+numbers of threads trying to grab UUIDs running on different CPUs.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-d
When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response
of
.I number
-UUID's.
+UUIDs.
.TP
.BI \-p " pidfile"
Specify the pathname where the pid file should be written. By default,
uuid__generate_random((unsigned char *) reply_buf +
sizeof(num), &num);
if (debug) {
- printf(_("Generated %d UUID's:\n"), num);
+ printf(_("Generated %d UUIDs:\n"), num);
for (i=0, cp=reply_buf+sizeof(num);
i < num; i++, cp+=16) {
uuid_unparse((unsigned char *)cp, str);
uuid_unparse((unsigned char *) buf, str);
- printf(_("%s and subsequent %d UUID's\n"), str, num);
+ printf(_("%s and subsequent %d UUIDs\n"), str, num);
} else {
- printf(_("List of UUID's:\n"));
+ printf(_("List of UUIDs:\n"));
cp = buf + 4;
if (ret != (int) (sizeof(num) + num*sizeof(uu)))
goto unexpected_size;
and among UUIDs created on other systems in the past
and in the future.
.PP
-There are two types of UUID's which
+There are two types of UUIDs which
.B uuidgen
-can generate: time-based UUID's and random-based UUID's. By
+can generate: time-based UUIDs and random-based UUIDs. By
default
.B uuidgen
will generate a random-based UUID if a high-quality random number
.IR /dev/urandom )
is not available, in which case a pseudo-random
generator will be subsituted. Note that the use of a pseudo-random
-generator may compromise the uniqueness of UUID's
+generator may compromise the uniqueness of UUIDs
generated in this fashion.
.sp
The
/*
- * compare.c --- compare whether or not two UUID's are the same
+ * compare.c --- compare whether or not two UUIDs are the same
*
- * Returns 0 if the two UUID's are different, and 1 if they are the same.
+ * Returns 0 if the two UUIDs are different, and 1 if they are the same.
*
* Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Theodore Ts'o.
*
/*
- * Internal routine for packing UUID's
+ * Internal routine for packing UUIDs
*
* Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Theodore Ts'o.
*