Hey,

I've added a small clarification around uuid's generated by
`uuid_create`, since DCE 1.1 doesn't explicitly specify version
4 UUIDs.

This implementation differs from FreeBSD's and bitrig's as they
generate version 1 UUIDs, which warrants this clarfication.

Thanks

Index: lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -p -r1.5 uuid.3
--- lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3        20 Nov 2015 21:05:52 -0000      1.5
+++ lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3        1 Oct 2018 02:07:42 -0000
@@ -204,3 +204,6 @@ The
 and
 .Fn uuid_to_string
 functions are compatible with the DCE 1.1 RPC specification.
+The UUIDs generated by
+.Fn uuid_create
+are Version 4 UUIDs, specified by section 4.4 of RFC 4122.

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