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CDE 1.1: Remote Procedure Call
Copyright © 1997 The Open Group

NAME

uuid_is_nil- determines if a UUID is a nil-valued UUID.

SYNOPSIS

#include <dce/uuid.h>

boolean32 uuid_is_nil( uuid_t *uuid, unsigned32 *status);

PARAMETERS

Input

uuid
Specifies a UUID to test for nil value.

Output

status
Returns the status code from this routine. The status code indicates whether the routine completed successfully, or if not, why not.

Possible status codes and their meanings include:

uuid_s_ok
Success.

DESCRIPTION

The uuid_is_nil() routine determines whether the specified UUID is a nil-valued UUID. This routine yields the same result as if an application did the following:

RETURN VALUE

If successful, returns one of the following constants:

TRUE
The uuid argument is a nil-valued UUID.

FALSE
The uuid argument is not a nil-valued UUID.

SEE ALSO


uuid_compare()
uuid_create_nil()
uuid_equal().

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