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| author | Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> | 2006-11-15 01:52:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> | 2006-11-15 01:52:01 +0000 |
| commit | dbc061b8123799e9352ab069b4dc1b5ea394587d (patch) | |
| tree | 844a285a90e00397c6fc2d4323375c5d130f8684 /tools | |
| parent | 2d760baacebcabf276261eb8999a7d29cefc3ac5 (diff) | |
2006-11-14 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
* dbus/dbus-internals.c (_dbus_generate_uuid): The spec said the
UUID had the timestamp last, but the implementation had it first;
move it to last since I think it's a tiny bit nicer (easier to
compare at a glance, faster to sort, less code), and will not
cause any practical compatibility problems. Also, always convert
the timestamp to big endian.
* doc/dbus-specification.xml: Clean up the docs on the UUID.
* tools/dbus-uuidgen.1: more prominently say it is not suitable
as a replacement for regular uuidgen/RFC4122.
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/dbus-uuidgen.1 | 19 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/tools/dbus-uuidgen.1 b/tools/dbus-uuidgen.1 index 882acfec..480fd18f 100644 --- a/tools/dbus-uuidgen.1 +++ b/tools/dbus-uuidgen.1 @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ dbus-uuidgen \- Utility to generate UUIDs The \fIdbus-uuidgen\fP command generates or reads a universally unique ID. .PP +Note that the D-Bus UUID has no relationship to RFC 4122 and does not generate +UUIDs compatible with that spec. Many systems have a separate command +for that (often called "uuidgen"). + +.PP See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for more information about D-Bus. @@ -39,15 +44,11 @@ IDs, and so forth. .PP If you run \fIdbus-uuidgen\fP with no options it just prints a new uuid made -up out of thin air. This is similar to the regular "uuidgen" command. - -.PP -If you run it with --get, it prints the machine uuid by default, or -the uuid in the specified file if you specify a file. +up out of thin air. .PP -The D-Bus UUID has no relationship to RFC 4122 and does not generate -UUIDs compatible with that spec. +If you run it with --get, it prints the machine UUID by default, or +the UUID in the specified file if you specify a file. .PP If you try to change an existing machine-id on a running system, it will @@ -55,6 +56,10 @@ probably result in bad things happening. Don't try to change this file. Also, don't make it the same on two different systems; it needs to be different anytime there are two different kernels running. +.PP +The UUID should be different on two different virtual machines, +because there are two different kernels. + .SH OPTIONS The following options are supported: .TP |