NAME¶

uuid_compare - compare whether two UUIDs are the same

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <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 lexicographically less than, equal, or greater than uu2.

AUTHORS¶

Theodore Y. Ts’o

SEE ALSO¶

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

AVAILABILITY¶

The libuuid library is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1. It can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.