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NAME

       sd_id128_randomize - Generate 128-bit IDs

SYNOPSIS

       #include <systemd/sd-id128.h>

       int sd_id128_randomize(sd_id128_t *ret);

DESCRIPTION

       sd_id128_randomize() generates a new randomized 128-bit ID and returns it in ret. Every invocation
       returns a new randomly generated ID. This uses the getrandom(2) kernel random number generator.

       Note that sd_id128_randomize() always returns a UUID Variant 1 Version 4 compatible ID. It is hence
       guaranteed that this function will never return the ID consisting of all zero or all one bits
       (SD_ID128_NULL, SD_ID128_ALLF).

       For more information about the "sd_id128_t" type, see sd-id128(3).

       systemd-id128(1)'s new command may be used as a command line front-end for sd_id128_randomize().

RETURN VALUE

       The call returns 0 on success (in which case ret is filled in), or a negative errno-style error code.

NOTES

       Functions described here are available as a shared library, which can be compiled against and linked to
       with the libsystemd pkg-config(1) file.

       The code described here uses getenv(3), which is declared to be not multi-thread-safe. This means that
       the code calling the functions described here must not call setenv(3) from a parallel thread. It is
       recommended to only do calls to setenv() from an early phase of the program when no other threads have
       been started.

HISTORY

       sd_id128_randomize() was added in version 187.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), sd-id128(3), machine-id(5), getrandom(2), random(4), sd_id128_get_machine(3)