redhat man page for uuid_compare

UUID_COMPARE(3) 					     Library Functions Manual						   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
       uuid_compare was written by Theodore Y. Ts'o for the ext2 filesystem utilties.

AVAILABILITY
       uuid_compare is part of libuuid from the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.

SEE ALSO
       libuuid(3), uuid_clear(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3)

E2fsprogs version 1.32						   November 2002						   UUID_COMPARE(3)