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31.\" Created Wed Mar 10 17:42:12 1999, Andreas Dilger
32.TH UUID_COMPARE 3 "May 2009" "util-linux" "Libuuid API"
33.SH NAME
34uuid_compare \- compare whether two UUIDs are the same
35.SH SYNOPSIS
36.nf
37.B #include <uuid.h>
38.sp
39.BI "int uuid_compare(uuid_t " uu1 ", uuid_t " uu2)
40.fi
41.SH DESCRIPTION
42The
43.B uuid_compare
44function compares the two supplied uuid variables
45.IR uu1 " and " uu2
46to each other.
47.SH RETURN VALUE
48Returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if
49.I uu1
50is found, respectively, to be lexicographically less than, equal, or
51greater than
52.IR uu2 .
53.SH AUTHOR
54Theodore Y.\& Ts'o
55.SH AVAILABILITY
56.B libuuid
57is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from
58ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
59.na
60.SH "SEE ALSO"
61.BR uuid (3),
62.BR uuid_clear (3),
63.BR uuid_copy (3),
64.BR uuid_generate (3),
65.BR uuid_is_null (3),
66.BR uuid_parse (3),
67.BR uuid_unparse (3)
68.ad