NAME

nanoid — generate a Nano ID

SYNOPSIS

#include <nanoid.h>

NANOID();

char *
nanoid(size_t length);

DESCRIPTION

NANOID() generates a Nano ID of the default length. Expands to nanoid(21).

nanoid() generates a Nano ID of the given length ≤256. Returns a newly allocated null-terminated string with the ID, or NULL if calloc(3) or getentropy(3) fail.

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

SEE ALSO

nanoidgen(1)

AUTHORS

Luka Teras <luka@sdf.org>