NAME

       sd-id128, sd_id128_t, SD_ID128_MAKE, SD_ID128_CONST_STR, SD_ID128_FORMAT_STR,
       SD_ID128_FORMAT_VAL, sd_id128_equal - APIs for processing 128 bit IDs

SYNOPSIS

       #include <systemd/sd-id128.h>

       pkg-config --cflags --libs libsystemd-id128

DESCRIPTION

       sd-id128.h provides APIs to process and generate 128 bit ID values. The 128 bit ID values
       processed and generated by these APIs are a generalization of OSF UUIDs as defined by RFC
       4122[1], though use a simpler string formatting. These functions impose no structure on
       the used IDs, much unlike OSF UUIDs or Microsoft GUIDs, but are fully compatible with
       those types of IDs.

       See sd_id128_to_string(3), sd_id128_randomize(3) and sd_id128_get_machine(3) for more
       information about the implemented functions.

       A 128 bit ID is implemented as the following union type:

           typedef union sd_id128 {
                   uint8_t bytes[16];
                   uint64_t qwords[2];
           } sd_id128_t;

       This union type allows accessing the 128 bit ID as 16 separate bytes or two 64 bit words.
       It is generally safer to access the ID components by their 8 bit array to avoid endianness
       issues. This union is intended to be passed call-by-value (as opposed to
       call-by-reference) and may be directly manipulated by clients.

       A couple of macros are defined to denote and decode 128 bit IDs:

       SD_ID128_MAKE() may be used to denote a constant 128 bit ID in source code. A commonly
       used idiom is to assign a name to a 128 bit ID using this macro:

           #define SD_MESSAGE_COREDUMP SD_ID128_MAKE(fc,2e,22,bc,6e,e6,47,b6,b9,07,29,ab,34,a2,50,b1)

       SD_ID128_CONST_STR() may be used to convert constant 128bit IDs into constant strings for
       output. The following example code will output the string
       "fc2e22bc6ee647b6b90729ab34a250b1":

           int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                   puts(SD_ID128_CONST_STR(SD_MESSAGE_COREDUMP));
           }

       SD_ID128_FORMAT_STR and SD_ID128_FORMAT_VAL() may be used to format a 128 bit ID in a
       printf(3) format string, as shown in the following example:

           int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                   sd_id128_t id;
                   id = SD_ID128_MAKE(ee,89,be,71,bd,6e,43,d6,91,e6,c5,5d,eb,03,02,07);
                   printf("The ID encoded in this C file is " SD_ID128_FORMAT_STR ".\n", SD_ID128_FORMAT_VAL(id));
                   return 0;
           }

       Use sd_id128_equal() to compare two 128 bit IDs:

           int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                   sd_id128_t a, b, c;
                   a = SD_ID128_MAKE(ee,89,be,71,bd,6e,43,d6,91,e6,c5,5d,eb,03,02,07);
                   b = SD_ID128_MAKE(f2,28,88,9c,5f,09,44,15,9d,d7,04,77,58,cb,e7,3e);
                   c = a;
                   assert(sd_id128_equal(a, c));
                   assert(!sd_id128_equal(a, b));
                   return 0;
           }

       Note that new, randomized IDs may be generated with journalctl(1)'s --new-id option.

NOTES

       These APIs are implemented as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with
       the libsystemd-id128pkg-config(1) file.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), sd_id128_to_string(3), sd_id128_randomize(3), sd_id128_get_machine(3),
       printf(3), journalctl(1), sd-journal(7), pkg-config(1), machine-id(5)

NOTES

        1. RFC 4122
           http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122