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authorAnthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>2012-11-15 10:33:16 -0500
committerAnthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>2012-11-15 10:33:16 -0500
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This commit is a first attempt to isolate the udev code from the remaining code base. It intentionally does not modify any files but purely delete files which, on a first examination, appear to not be needed. This is a sweeping commit which may easily have missed needed code. Files can be retrieved by doing a checkout from the previous commit: git checkout 2944f347d0 -- <filename>
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-<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
-<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"?>
-<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
-
-<!--
- This file is part of systemd.
-
- Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
-
- systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
- (at your option) any later version.
-
- systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- Lesser General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
- along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
--->
-
-<refentry id="machine-id">
- <refentryinfo>
- <title>/etc/machine-id</title>
- <productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>Developer</contrib>
- <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
- <surname>Poettering</surname>
- <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
- </refentryinfo>
-
- <refmeta>
- <refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
- </refmeta>
-
- <refnamediv>
- <refname>machine-id</refname>
- <refpurpose>Local machine ID configuration file</refpurpose>
- </refnamediv>
-
- <refsynopsisdiv>
- <para><filename>/etc/machine-id</filename></para>
- </refsynopsisdiv>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Description</title>
-
- <para>The <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> file
- contains the unique machine id of the local system
- that is set during installation. The machine ID is a
- single newline-terminated, hexadecimal, lowercase 32
- character machine ID string. (When decoded from
- hexadecimal this corresponds with a 16 byte/128 bit
- string.)</para>
-
- <para>The machine ID is usually generated from a
- random source during system installation and stays
- constant for all subsequent boots. Optionally, for
- stateless systems it is generated during runtime at
- boot if it is found to be empty.</para>
-
- <para>The machine ID does not change based on user
- configuration, or when hardware is replaced.</para>
-
- <para>This machine ID adheres to the same format and
- logic as the D-Bus machine ID.</para>
-
- <para>Programs may use this ID to identify the host
- with a globally unique ID in the network, that does
- not change even if the local network configuration
- changes. Due to this and its greater length it is
- a more useful replacement for the
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gethostid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- call POSIX specifies.</para>
-
- <para>The
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-setup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- tool may be used by installer tools to initialize the
- machine ID at install time.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Relation to OSF UUIDs</title>
-
- <para>Note that the machine ID historically is not an
- OSF UUID as defined by <ulink
- url="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122">RFC
- 4122</ulink>, nor a Microsoft GUID. Starting with
- systemd v30 newly generated machine IDs however do
- qualify as v4 UUIDs.</para>
-
- <para>In order to maintain compatibility with existing
- installations, an application requiring a UUID should
- decode the machine ID, and then apply the following
- operations to turn it into a valid OSF v4 UUID. With
- <literal>id</literal> being an unsigned character
- array:</para>
-
- <programlisting>/* Set UUID version to 4 --- truly random generation */
-id[6] = (id[6] &amp; 0x0F) | 0x40;
-/* Set the UUID variant to DCE */
-id[8] = (id[8] &amp; 0x3F) | 0x80;</programlisting>
-
- <para>(This code is inspired by
- <literal>generate_random_uuid()</literal> of
- <filename>drivers/char/random.c</filename> from the
- kernel sources.)</para>
-
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>History</title>
-
- <para>The simple configuration file format of
- <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> originates in the
- <filename>/var/lib/dbus/machine-id</filename> file
- introduced by D-Bus. In fact this latter file might be a
- symlink to
- <varname>/etc/machine-id</varname>.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>See Also</title>
- <para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-setup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gethostid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>hostname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-info</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>os-release</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-id128</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_id128_get_machine</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
-</refentry>