uuid_parse man page on Gentoo

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UUID_PARSE(3)			  Libuuid API			 UUID_PARSE(3)

NAME
       uuid_parse - convert an input UUID string into binary representation

SYNOPSIS
       #include <uuid.h>

       int uuid_parse( char *in, uuid_t uu);

DESCRIPTION
       The  uuid_parse	function converts the UUID string given by in into the
       binary representation.	The  input  UUID  is  a	 string	 of  the  form
       1b4e28ba-2fa1-11d2-883f-b9a761bde3fb	 (in	  printf(3)	format
       "%08x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%012x", 36 bytes plus the trailing '\0').

RETURN VALUE
       Upon successfully parsing the input string, 0 is returned, and the UUID
       is stored in the location pointed to by uu, otherwise -1 is returned.

CONFORMING TO
       OSF DCE 1.1

AUTHOR
       Theodore Y. Ts'o

AVAILABILITY
       libuuid	is  part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is
       available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

SEE ALSO
       uuid(3),	 uuid_clear(3),	 uuid_compare(3),  uuid_copy(3),   uuid_gener‐
       ate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3)

util-linux			   May 2009			 UUID_PARSE(3)

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