uuid_gen(1ncs)

Name

uuid_gen − UUID generating program

Syntax

/etc/ncs/uuid_gen [ −c ] [ −C ] [ −version ] }

Description

The uuid_gen program generates Universal Unique Identifiers (UUIDs). Without options, it generates a character-string representation of a UUID. The −c option enables you to generate a template for Network Interface Definition Language (NIDL) files. The −C option enables you to generate source-code representations of UUIDs, suitable for initializing variables of type uuid_$t.

Options

−c Generate a template, including a UUID attribute, for an interface definition in the C syntax of NIDL.

−C Generate a C source-code representation of a UUID.

−version Display the version of the Network Computing Kernel (NCK) that this uuid_gen belongs to but do not generate a UUID. (NCK is part of the Network Computing System (NCS) on which DECrpc is based.)

Examples

Generate a character-string representation of a UUID:

$ /etc/ncs/uuid_gen
34dc23469000.0d.00.00.7c.5f.00.00.00

Generate a template for an interface definition in the C syntax of NIDL:

$ /etc/ncs/uuid_gen −c
%c
[
uuid(34dc239ec000.0d.00.00.7c.5f.00.00.00),
version(1)
]
interface INTERFACENAME {
}

Generate a template for an interface definition in the C syntax of NIDL. Redirect the output to the file myfile.idl.

$ /etc/ncs/uuid_gen −c >myfile.idl

Generate a C source-code representation of a UUID:

$ /etc/ncs/uuid_gen −C
= { 0x34dc23af,
0xf000,
0x0000,
0x0d,
{0x00, 0x00, 0x7c, 0x5f, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00} };