generate_guid


Description:


[ Version ( since = "2.26" ) ]
public string generate_guid ()

Generate a D-Bus GUID that can be used with e.

g. @new.

See the D-Bus specification regarding what strings are valid D-Bus GUIDs. The specification refers to these as ‘UUIDs’ whereas GLib (for historical reasons) refers to them as ‘GUIDs’. The terms are interchangeable.

Note that D-Bus GUIDs do not follow RFC 4122.

Returns:

A valid D-Bus GUID. Free with g_free.


Namespace: GLib.DBus
Package: gio-2.0



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