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gethostid anyone?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 00:04:21 -0500
- Subject: gethostid anyone?
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
Anyone interested in implementing a working gethostid? It should be
trivial to have it returned a munged IP address like linux but it
might be more interesting if it returned something more unique than
that.
I was playing around with uuidgen to see if that could be used to
generate something unique but it creates too many bits. I thought
it might be interesting to use it to seed a /etc/hostid file, though.
Anyway, this would be a good project for anyone interested in contributing
something. It would also remove an XFAIL from the test suite.
cgf