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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3 | 30 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3 b/lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3 index 08cf737..471629f 100644 --- a/lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3 +++ b/lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd January 3, 2005 +.Dd August 13, 2008 .Dt UUID 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ .Fn uuid_is_nil "const uuid_t *uuid" "uint32_t *status" .Ft void .Fn uuid_to_string "const uuid_t *uuid" "char **str" "uint32_t *status" +.Ft void +.Fn uuid_enc_le "void *buf" "const uuid_t *uuid" +.Ft void +.Fn uuid_dec_le "const void *buf" "uuid_t *" +.Ft void +.Fn uuid_enc_be "void *buf" "const uuid_t *uuid" +.Ft void +.Fn uuid_dec_be "const void *buf" "uuid_t *" .Sh DESCRIPTION The family of DCE 1.1 compliant UUID functions allow applications to operate on universally unique identifiers, or UUIDs. @@ -74,6 +82,26 @@ or respectively. A 16-bit hash value can be obtained by calling .Fn uuid_hash . +.Pp +The +.Fn uuid_enc_le +and +.Fn uuid_enc_be +functions encode a binary representation of a UUID into an octet stream +in little-endian and big-endian byte-order, respectively. +The destination buffer must be pre-allocated by the caller, and must be +large enough to hold the 16-octet binary UUID. +These routines are not part of the DCE RPC API. +They are provided for convenience. +.Pp +The +.Fn uuid_dec_le +and +.Fn uuid_dec_be +functions decode a UUID from an octet stream in little-endian and +big-endian byte-order, respectively. +These routines are not part of the DCE RPC API. +They are provided for convenience. .Sh RETURN VALUES The successful or unsuccessful completion of the function is returned in the |
