Using these IDs for message identication is one use case, but there are
others, hence let's drop the prefix, it only made sense to have while
the tool was part of journalctl.
For some unrelated stuff I wanted the machine ID in UUID format, and it
was annoying doing that manually. So let's add a switch for this, so
that this works:
systemd-id128 machine-id -u
The raison d'etre for this program is printing machine-app-specific IDs. We
provide a library function for that, but not a convenient API. We can hardly
ask people to quickly hack their own C programs or call libsystemd through CFFI
in python or another scripting language if they just want to print an ID.
Verb 'new' was already available as 'journalctl --new-id128', but this makes
it more discoverable.
v2:
- rename binary to systemd-id128
- make --app-specific= into a switch that applies to boot-id and machine-id
Yu Watanabe