UUID_COMPARE

Section: Libuuid API (3)
Updated: May 2009
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NAME

uuid_compare - compare whether two UUIDs are the same  

SYNOPSIS

#include <uuid/uuid.h>

int uuid_compare(uuid_t uu1, uuid_t uu2)
 

DESCRIPTION

The uuid_compare function compares the two supplied uuid variables uu1 and uu2 to each other.  

RETURN VALUE

Returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if uu1 is found, respectively, to be lexigraphically less than, equal, or greater than uu2.  

AUTHOR

Theodore Y. Ts'o  

AVAILABILITY

libuuid is part of the util-linux-ng package since version 2.15.1 and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.  

SEE ALSO

uuid(3), uuid_clear(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_unparse(3)