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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