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26.Dd November 19, 2021
27.Dt UUID 3
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm uuid_compare , uuid_create , uuid_create_nil , uuid_equal ,
31.Nm uuid_from_string , uuid_hash , uuid_is_nil , uuid_to_string
32.Nd DCE 1.1 compliant UUID functions
33.Sh LIBRARY
34.Lb libc
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In uuid.h
37.Ft int32_t
38.Fn uuid_compare "const uuid_t *uuid1" "const uuid_t *uuid2" "uint32_t *status"
39.Ft void
40.Fn uuid_create "uuid_t *uuid" "uint32_t *status"
41.Ft void
42.Fn uuid_create_nil "uuid_t *uuid" "uint32_t *status"
43.Ft int32_t
44.Fn uuid_equal "const uuid_t *uuid1" "const uuid_t *uuid2" "uint32_t *status"
45.Ft void
46.Fn uuid_from_string "const char *str" "uuid_t *uuid" "uint32_t *status"
47.Ft uint16_t
48.Fn uuid_hash "const uuid_t *uuid" "uint32_t *status"
49.Ft int32_t
50.Fn uuid_is_nil "const uuid_t *uuid" "uint32_t *status"
51.Ft void
52.Fn uuid_to_string "const uuid_t *uuid" "char **str" "uint32_t *status"
53.Ft void
54.Fn uuid_enc_le "void *buf" "const uuid_t *uuid"
55.Ft void
56.Fn uuid_dec_le "const void *buf" "uuid_t *"
57.Ft void
58.Fn uuid_enc_be "void *buf" "const uuid_t *uuid"
59.Ft void
60.Fn uuid_dec_be "const void *buf" "uuid_t *"
61.Sh DESCRIPTION
62The family of DCE 1.1 compliant UUID functions allow applications to operate
63on universally unique identifiers, or UUIDs.
64The
65.Fn uuid_create
66and
67.Fn uuid_create_nil
68functions create UUIDs.
69To convert from the binary representation to the string representation or
70vice versa, use
71.Fn uuid_to_string
72or
73.Fn uuid_from_string
74respectively.
75.Pp
76The
77.Fn uuid_to_string
78function set
79.Fa *str
80to be a pointer to a buffer sufficiently large to hold the string.
81This pointer should be passed to
82.Xr free 3
83to release the allocated storage when it is no longer needed.
84.Pp
85The
86.Fn uuid_enc_le
87and
88.Fn uuid_enc_be
89functions encode a binary representation of a UUID into an octet stream
90in little-endian and big-endian byte-order, respectively.
91The destination buffer must be pre-allocated by the caller, and must be
92large enough to hold the 16-octet binary UUID.
93These routines are not part of the DCE RPC API.
94They are provided for convenience.
95.Pp
96The
97.Fn uuid_dec_le
98and
99.Fn uuid_dec_be
100functions decode a UUID from an octet stream in little-endian and
101big-endian byte-order, respectively.
102These routines are not part of the DCE RPC API.
103They are provided for convenience.
104.Pp
105The
106.Fn uuid_compare
107and
108.Fn uuid_equal
109functions compare two UUIDs for equality.
110UUIDs are equal if pointers
111.Fa a
112and
113.Fa b
114are equal or both
115.Dv NULL ,
116or if the structures
117.Fa a
118and
119.Fa b
120point to are equal.
121.Fn uuid_compare
122returns 0 if the UUIDs are equal, -1 if
123.Fa a
124is less than
125.Fa b ,
126and 1 if
127.Fa a
128is greater than
129.Fa b .
130.Fn uuid_equal
131returns 1 if the UUIDs are equal, 0 if they are
132not equal.
133.Pp
134The
135.Fn uuid_is_nil
136function compares a UUID to
137.Dv NULL .
138The function returns 1 if
139.Fa u
140is
141.Dv NULL
142or if the UUID consists of all zeros, and zero otherwise.
143.Pp
144The
145.Fn uuid_hash
146function returns a 16-bit hash value for the specified UUID.
147.Sh RETURN VALUES
148The successful or unsuccessful completion of the function is returned in
149the
150.Fa status
151argument.
152Possible values are:
153.Bl -tag -width ".Dv uuid_s_invalid_string_uuid"
154.It Dv uuid_s_ok
155The function completed successfully.
156.It Dv uuid_s_bad_version
157The UUID does not have a known version.
158.It Dv uuid_s_invalid_string_uuid
159The string representation of an UUID is not valid.
160.It Dv uuid_s_no_memory
161The function can not allocate memory to store an UUID representation.
162.El
163.Pp
164.Fn uuid_compare ,
165.Fn uuid_equal ,
166.Fn uuid_is_nil ,
167and
168.Fn uuid_hash
169always set
170.Fa status
171to
172.Dv uuid_s_ok .
173.Sh SEE ALSO
174.Xr uuidgen 1 ,
175.Xr uuidgen 2
176.Sh STANDARDS
177The UUID functions conform to the DCE 1.1 RPC specification.
178.Sh BUGS
179This manpage can be improved.
180