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GETHOSTUUID(2)                          Mac OS X System Calls Manual                          GETHOSTUUID(2)

NAME
     gethostuuid -- return a unique identifier for the current machine

SYNOPSIS
     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     gethostuuid(uuid_t id, const struct timespec *wait);

DESCRIPTION
     The gethostuuid() function returns a 16-byte uuid_t specified by id, that uniquely identifies the cur-rent current
     rent machine.  Be aware that the hardware identifiers that gethostuuid() uses to generate the UUID can
     themselves be modified.

     The wait argument is a pointer to a struct timespec that specifies the maximum time to wait for the
     result.  Setting the tv_sec and tv_nsec fields to zero means to wait indefinitely until it completes.

RETURN VALUES
     The gethostuuid() function returns zero on success or -1 on error.

ERRORS
     The gethostuuid() functions fails if:

     [EFAULT]           wait points to memory that is not a valid part of the process address space.

     [EWOULDBLOCK]      The wait timeout expired before the UUID could be obtained.

SEE ALSO
     uuid(3)

Mac OS X                                         Nov 5, 2008                                        Mac OS X

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