Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:58:05 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Licensing Software Message-ID: <199609252358.QAA07460@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:08:21 PDT." <199609252008.NAA06581@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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>> > o If your topology prefix is subject to change, don't include
>> > it. It's just "one more damn thing" to push you over the
>> > allowed 32 bit limit anyway.
>>
>> What ``allowed 32 bit limit''?
>
>This one:
>
>% man hostid
>GETHOSTID(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual GETHOSTID(3)
Right, and you left out the good part:
BUGS
32 bits for the identifier is too small.
HISTORY
The gethostid() and sethostid() syscalls appeared in 4.2BSD and were
dropped in 4.4BSD.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-DG
David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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