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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>1999-06-17 22:49:23 +0000
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>1999-06-17 22:49:23 +0000
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parenta4bf69d919bc7e9716726371ecb0f0900efa5eb9 (diff)
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ChangeLog, uuid_compare.3.in, compare.c:
compare.c (uuid_compare): Change sense of uuid_compare so that its return values match that of memcpy and the uuid_compare() found in Paul Leach's internet-draft.
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diff --git a/lib/uuid/uuid_compare.3.in b/lib/uuid/uuid_compare.3.in
index 3dab0719..de56e426 100644
--- a/lib/uuid/uuid_compare.3.in
+++ b/lib/uuid/uuid_compare.3.in
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ function compares the two supplied uuid variables
.IR uu1 " and " uu2
to each other.
.SH RETURN VALUE
-Returns 1 if the two UUIDs are the same and 0 otherwise.
+Returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if
+.I uu1
+is found, respectively, to be lexigraphically less than, equal, or
+greater than
+.IR uu2 .
.SH AUTHOR
.B uuid_compare
was written by Theodore Y. Ts'o for the ext2 filesystem utilties.