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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Most Neewbie friendly distribution Post 39608 by criglerj on Monday 25th of August 2003 02:50:32 PM

08-25-2003

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If you are using, or will soon be using, Unix in more classes, instal whatever is most like what you've already been using. That is, if the university is using Suse Linux, install that; if Solaris, install that; etc.

[Moderators: Did this get edited behind my back? Part of my post seems to have been lost.]

{Neo: Yes, you can't offer an OS without qualifying it as 'your preference' or some reason... to just say 'PICK BSD' is not very useful because there are many great UNIX flavors and we don't want OS-wars on this site, In other words, why do you think a 'newbie' would find BSD useful? Is BSD easy to install? What version? etc.}

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uuid_compare

UUID_COMPARE(3) 						    Libuuid API 						   UUID_COMPARE(3)

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 package since version 2.15.1 and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

SEE ALSO

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

util-linux							     May 2009							   UUID_COMPARE(3)