Universally Unique Identifiers

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Here are various ways to generate universally unique identifiers (UUID's) [1] in Lua.

Linux distributions may provide the 'uuid' command: local fh = assert(io.popen'uuid'); print(fh:read'*l'); fh:close() . This is also mentioned in [PiL].
[lhf's uuid] is a small C wrapper around libuuid
Lua/APR provides a [uuid_get] functions, wrapping the corresponding APR C function.

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