generate_random_uuid(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

generate_random_uuid — generate a random UUID. Okay so yes bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for generate_random_uuid(9), and it's literally about making a random UUID. Slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void generate_random_uuid (unsigned char uuid[16] );

It's giving void, so no return value to obsess over — you just call it and move on. 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• uuid — where to put the generated UUID. That's the whole vibe: you give it the destination, it handles the random UUID situation. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Random UUID interface.

Used to create a Boot ID or a filesystem UUID/GUID, but can be useful for other kernel drivers. So like, main character energy for Boot IDs and filesystem UUIDs/GUIDs, and lowkey handy for other kernel drivers too. 🔥

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file ./lib/uuid.c
• uuid_is_valid(9)

Go peek at these if you want the full lore, iykyk. 🧚

source/version: ./lib · date: October 2026 — mwah, bestie, that's the whole page 💋✨