| author | Dominic Pinkman <dominic.pinkman@nokia.com> |
| Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:00:49 +0100 | |
| changeset 13 | 48780e181b38 |
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<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. --> |
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<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License |
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"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, |
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and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". --> |
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Nokia Corporation - initial contribution. |
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PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd"> |
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<concept id="GUID-7767640D-5DD0-563B-8EE7-5C3EAEDBF859" xml:lang="en"><title>UIDs</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody> |
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<p>A UID is a globally unique identifier consisting of a 32-bit number. |
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UIDs are used throughout the Symbian platform to enable various kinds |
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of file identification and association. </p> |
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<p>Because UIDs are fundamental to the Symbian platform, it is important |
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that they are used correctly when developing programs. To ensure uniqueness, |
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it is essential that UIDs are properly allocated. Uniqueness is guaranteed |
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by allocating UIDs centrally from a database managed by Symbian at <xref href="https://www.symbiansigned.com" scope="external">https://www.symbiansigned.com</xref>. </p> |
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</conbody></concept> |