[ovs-dev] [PATCH 02/27] uuid: Change semantics of uuid_is_partial_string().

[Russell Bryant]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> Until now, uuid_is_partial_string() returned the number of characters at
> the beginning of a string that were the beginning of a valid UUID.  This
> is useful, but all of the callers actually wanted to get a value of 0 if
> the string contained a character that was invalid for a UUID.  This makes
> that change.
>
> Examples:
>
>   "123" previously yielded 3 and still does.
>   "xyzzy" previously yielded 0 and still does.
>   "123xyzzy" previously yielded 3, now yields 0.
>   "e66250bb-9531-491b-b9c3-5385cabb0080" previously yielded 36, still does.
>   "e66250bb-9531-491b-b9c3-5385cabb0080xyzzy" previously yielded 36, now 0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>


Acked-by: Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org>