Re: printing binary UUIDs

[Luke Howard <lukeh@padl.com>]

You could use the following Perl:

sub unpackGuid
{
        my $packedGuid = $_[0];
        sprintf "%08x-%04x-%04x-%02x%02x-%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x", unpack("VvvC8", $packedGuid);
}

$value = unpackGuid(decodeBase64($ARGV[0]));

-- Luke

>From: Aaron Richton <richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu>
>Subject: printing binary UUIDs
>To: openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
>Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:07:01 -0500 (EST)
>
>Is there a function out there for turning a binary UUID into, say, the
>form output by ldapsearch(1)? I'm still seeing missed entires (fairly
>regularly) with syncrepl. -d -1 showed that the client requests are
>identical (except for CSNs) on a run that worked and a run that didn't, so
>I'm suspecting the provider. Of course, this never happens under debugger.
>I'm thinking of just throwing a few Debug() statements in the slog
>functions and running (maybe even production) with that. But I'd like to
>be able to easily correlate the uuids in the log with slapcat'd output.

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