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UUID_COMPARE(3) Libuuid API UUID_COMPARE(3)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.
AUTHOR
Theodore Y. Ts'o
AVAILABILITY
libuuid is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from https://www.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)