From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 25 16:58:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA17775 for current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA17572; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id QAA07460; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:58:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609252358.QAA07460@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Terry Lambert cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Licensing Software In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:08:21 PDT." <199609252008.NAA06581@phaeton.artisoft.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:58:05 -0700 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > 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