sd-id128

systemd
Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net
sd-id128 3
sd-id128 sd_id128_t SD_ID128_MAKE SD_ID128_CONST_STR SD_ID128_FORMAT_STR SD_ID128_FORMAT_VAL sd_id128_equal APIs for processing 128 bit IDs

    #include <systemd/sd-id128.h>

`pkg-config --cflags --libs libsystemd-id128`

## Description

`sd-id128.h` provides APIs to process and generate 128 bit ID values. The 128 bit ID values processed and generated by these APIs are a generalization of OSF UUIDs as defined by RFC 4122, though use a simpler string formatting. These functions impose no structure on the used IDs, much unlike OSF UUIDs or Microsoft GUIDs, but are fully compatible with those types of IDs.

See sd_id128_to_string 3, sd_id128_randomize 3 and sd_id128_get_machine 3 for more information about the implemented functions.

A 128 bit ID is implemented as the following union type:

    typedef union sd_id128 {
            uint8_t bytes[16];
            uint64_t qwords[2];
    } sd_id128_t;

This union type allows accessing the 128 bit ID as 16 separate bytes or two 64 bit words. It is generally safer to access the ID components by their 8 bit array to avoid endianness issues. This union is intended to be passed call-by-value (as opposed to call-by-reference) and may be directly manipulated by clients.

A couple of macros are defined to denote and decode 128 bit IDs:

`SD_ID128_MAKE()` may be used to denote a constant 128 bit ID in source code. A commonly used idiom is to assign a name to a 128 bit ID using this macro:

    #define SD_MESSAGE_COREDUMP SD_ID128_MAKE(fc,2e,22,bc,6e,e6,47,b6,b9,07,29,ab,34,a2,50,b1)

`SD_ID128_CONST_STR()` may be used to convert constant 128bit IDs into constant strings for output. The following example code will output the string "fc2e22bc6ee647b6b90729ab34a250b1":

    int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
            puts(SD_ID128_CONST_STR(SD_MESSAGE_COREDUMP));
    }

`SD_ID128_FORMAT_STR` and `SD_ID128_FORMAT_VAL()` may be used to format a 128 bit ID in a printf 3 format string, as shown in the following example:

    int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
            sd_id128_t id;
            id = SD_ID128_MAKE(ee,89,be,71,bd,6e,43,d6,91,e6,c5,5d,eb,03,02,07);
            printf("The ID encoded in this C file is " SD_ID128_FORMAT_STR ".\n", SD_ID128_FORMAT_VAL(id));
            return 0;
    }

Use `sd_id128_equal()` to compare two 128 bit IDs:

    int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
            sd_id128_t a, b, c;
            a = SD_ID128_MAKE(ee,89,be,71,bd,6e,43,d6,91,e6,c5,5d,eb,03,02,07);
            b = SD_ID128_MAKE(f2,28,88,9c,5f,09,44,15,9d,d7,04,77,58,cb,e7,3e);
            c = a;
            assert(sd_id128_equal(a, c));
            assert(!sd_id128_equal(a, b));
            return 0;
    }

Note that new, randomized IDs may be generated with journalctl 1's `--new-id` option.

## Notes

These APIs are implemented as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the `libsystemd-id128` pkg-config 1 file.

## See Also

systemd 1, sd_id128_to_string 3, sd_id128_randomize 3, sd_id128_get_machine 3, printf 3, journalctl 1, sd-journal 7, pkg-config 1, machine-id 5