1 /* -*- mode: C; c-file-style: "gnu" -*- */
2 /* dbus-misc.c A few assorted public functions that don't fit elsewhere
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25 #include "dbus-misc.h"
26 #include "dbus-internals.h"
27 #include "dbus-string.h"
30 * @defgroup DBusMisc Miscellaneous
32 * @brief Miscellaneous API that doesn't cleanly fit anywhere else
38 * Obtains the machine UUID of the machine this process is running on.
40 * The returned string must be freed with dbus_free().
42 * This UUID is guaranteed to remain the same until the next reboot
43 * (unless the sysadmin foolishly changes it and screws themselves).
44 * It will usually remain the same across reboots also, but hardware
45 * configuration changes or rebuilding the machine could break that.
47 * The idea is that two processes with the same machine ID should be
48 * able to use shared memory, UNIX domain sockets, process IDs, and other
49 * features of the OS that require both processes to be running
50 * on the same OS kernel instance.
52 * The machine ID can also be used to create unique per-machine
53 * instances. For example, you could use it in bus names or
56 * The machine ID is preferred over the machine hostname, because
57 * the hostname is frequently set to "localhost.localdomain" and
58 * may also change at runtime.
60 * You can get the machine ID of a remote application by invoking the
61 * method GetMachineId from interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer.
63 * If the remote application has the same machine ID as the one
64 * returned by this function, then the remote application is on the
65 * same machine as your application.
67 * The UUID is not a UUID in the sense of RFC4122; the details
68 * are explained in the D-Bus specification.
70 * @returns a 32-byte-long hex-encoded UUID string, or #NULL if insufficient memory
73 dbus_get_local_machine_id (void)
79 _dbus_string_init (&uuid);
80 if (!_dbus_get_local_machine_uuid_encoded (&uuid) ||
81 !_dbus_string_steal_data (&uuid, &s))
83 _dbus_string_free (&uuid);
88 _dbus_string_free (&uuid);
94 /** @} */ /* End of public API */
96 #ifdef DBUS_BUILD_TESTS
98 #ifndef DOXYGEN_SHOULD_SKIP_THIS
100 #include "dbus-test.h"
105 _dbus_misc_test (void)
111 #endif /* !DOXYGEN_SHOULD_SKIP_THIS */