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Title: GUuid SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Bastien Nocera SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Marc-André Lureau
GUuid
A UUID, or Universally unique identifier, is intended to uniquely identify information in a distributed environment. For the definition of UUID, see RFC 4122.
The creation of UUIDs does not require a centralized authority.
UUIDs are of relatively small size (128 bits, or 16 bytes). The
common string representation (ex:
1d6c0810-2bd6-45f3-9890-0268422a6f14) needs 37 bytes.
[func@GLib.uuid_string_is_valid] can be used to check whether a string is a
valid UUID.
The UUID specification defines 5 versions, and calling [func@GLib.uuid_string_random] will generate a unique (or rather random) UUID of the most common version, version 4.
UUID support was added to GLib in version 2.52.