UUID generator for Erlang

Copyright 2010 Zoltan Klinger <zoltan dot klinger at gmail dot com>

1. General Information:
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  The UUID generator is implemented as a gen_server making calls to a
  linked in driver.

2. Dependencies:
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  The linked in drivier is using the libuuid library.

2.1 Obtaining the libuuid library
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  Ubuntu:
    sudo apt-get install uuid-dev

  Cygwin:
    install the e2fsprogs package

3. Building the UUID generator
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  Go to the root level of the uuid project and build the linked in
  driver and compile the Erlang files:
  $ make

4. Using the UUID generator
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$ erl -pz ./ebin
1> uuid:start_link("priv/lib", "uuid_gen_drv").
{ok,<0.34.0>}
2> uuid:create().  
{ok,"ae42a570-08dd-4e10-8ec5-2f1485efe8bd"}
3> uuid:create_t().
{ok,"b80668e2-51f5-11df-aab5-000e3526dd6e"}
4> uuid:stop().
stopped