.IR uu1 " and " uu2
to each other.
.SH RETURN VALUE
-Returns 1 if the two UUIDs are the same and 0 otherwise.
+Returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if
+.I uu1
+is found, respectively, to be lexigraphically less than, equal, or
+greater than
+.IR uu2 .
.SH AUTHOR
.B uuid_compare
was written by Theodore Y. Ts'o for the ext2 filesystem utilties.