NAME¶
uuid_parse - convert an input UUID string into binary representation
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <uuid.h>
int uuid_parse( char *in, uuid_t uu);
DESCRIPTION¶
The
uuid_parse function converts the UUID string given by
in into
the binary representation. The input UUID is a string of the form
1b4e28ba-2fa1-11d2-883f-b9a761bde3fb (in
printf(3) format
"%08x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%012x", 36 bytes plus the trailing '\0').
RETURN VALUE¶
Upon successfully parsing the input string, 0 is returned, and the UUID is
stored in the location pointed to by
uu, otherwise -1 is returned.
OSF DCE 1.1
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_compare(3),
uuid_copy(3),
uuid_generate(3),
uuid_is_null(3),
uuid_time(3),
uuid_unparse(3)