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UUID_COMPARE(3)            Programmers Manual            UUID_COMPARE(3)

NAME         top

       uuid_compare - compare whether two UUIDs are the same

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <uuid.h>

       int uuid_compare(const uuid_t uu1, const uuid_t uu2)

DESCRIPTION         top

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

RETURN VALUE         top

       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         top

       Theodore Y. Ts’o

SEE ALSO         top

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

AVAILABILITY         top

       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/>. This page
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Pages that refer to this page: uuid(3),  uuid_clear(3),  uuid_copy(3),  uuid_generate(3),  uuid_is_null(3),  uuid_parse(3),  uuid_time(3),  uuid_unparse(3)

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