The ExUuidCreate routine initializes a UUID (GUID) structure to a newly generated value.

NTSTATUS 
  ExUuidCreate(
    OUT UUID  *Uuid,
    );

Parameters

Uuid

A pointer to a caller-allocated UUID (GUID) structure that is set to a new UUID value.

Return Value

ExUuidCreate returns STATUS_SUCCESS if successful; otherwise, if the system is not ready to generate a new UUID, it returns STATUS_RETRY.

Comments

A UUID and a GUID are the same data type.

The caller can iteratively attempt to obtain a new UUID value.

Requirements

IRQL: PASSIVE_LEVEL

Headers: Declared in Ntddk.h. Include Ntddk.h.