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kent
  Fri Jun 9 11:57:35 2017 -0700
Starting a local uuid module with makeUuidString.

diff --git src/lib/uuid.c src/lib/uuid.c
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+++ src/lib/uuid.c
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+/* uuid - stuff to make working with uuid's a little bit easier.  These are the things
+ * that look like 08965457-c5aa-43de-894c-cc01483a5691 in ascii, or as 16 unsigned chars
+ * in binary.  Uuid stands for universally unique ID, and though they are a bit ugly
+ * and hard to type or even cut an paste, they do make very effective nonredundant IDs.
+ *
+ * If you use this file you need to add -luuid to your link line. */
+
+#include "common.h"
+#include "uuid.h"
+
+char *makeUuidString(char buf[37])
+/* Generate a random uuid and put it in the usual hex-plus-dashes form */
+{
+/* Generate 16 bytes of random sequence with uuid generator */
+unsigned char uuid[16];
+uuid_generate(uuid);
+uuid_unparse_lower(uuid, buf);
+return buf;
+}
+