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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2021-06-15 17:55:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2021-06-15 20:58:56 +0200 |
| commit | 39d02a175f08c8cc9e4507e1abce26912d00fac3 (patch) | |
| tree | ccdc51852d56613ef11bdc2c3a999656e35189b4 /man/sd_id128_randomize.xml | |
| parent | 9b682672e4b21e6325b48da3dcca4b4a479378a6 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-39d02a175f08c8cc9e4507e1abce26912d00fac3.tar.gz | |
sd-id128: document everywhere that we treat all UUIDs as Variant 1
So in theory UUID Variant 2 (i.e. microsoft GUIDs) are supposed to be
displayed in native endian. That is of course a bad idea, and Linux
userspace generally didn't implement that, i.e. uuidd and similar.
Hence, let's not bother either, but let's document that we treat
everything the same as Variant 1, even if it declares something else.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/sd_id128_randomize.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/sd_id128_randomize.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/sd_id128_randomize.xml b/man/sd_id128_randomize.xml index 0bc1d0abd8..52fa089ec3 100644 --- a/man/sd_id128_randomize.xml +++ b/man/sd_id128_randomize.xml @@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ <filename>/dev/urandom</filename> kernel random number generator.</para> - <para>Note that <function>sd_id128_randomize()</function> always returns a UUID v4-compatible ID. It is - hence guaranteed that this function will never return the ID consisting of all zero or all one bits - (<constant>SD_ID128_NULL</constant>, <constant>SD_ID128_ALLF</constant>).</para> + <para>Note that <function>sd_id128_randomize()</function> 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 (<constant>SD_ID128_NULL</constant>, <constant>SD_ID128_ALLF</constant>).</para> <para>For more information about the <literal>sd_id128_t</literal> type, see |