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diff --git a/man2/gethostid.2 b/man2/gethostid.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..83e2b62db --- /dev/null +++ b/man2/gethostid.2 @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +.\" Hey Emacs! This file is -*- nroff -*- source. +.\" +.\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from +.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" +.\" Updated with additions from Mitchum DSouza <m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk> +.\" Portions Copyright 1993 Mitchum DSouza <m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk> +.\" +.\" Modified Tue Oct 22 00:22:35 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> +.TH GETHOSTID 2 1993-11-29 "Linux 0.99.13" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +gethostid, sethostid \- get or set the unique identifier of the current host +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B #include <unistd.h> +.sp +.B long gethostid(void); +.br +.BI "int sethostid(long " hostid ); +.SH DESCRIPTION +Get or set a unique 32-bit identifier for the current machine. The 32-bit +identifier is intended to be unique among all UNIX systems in +existence. This normally resembles the Internet address for the local +machine, as returned by +.BR gethostbyname (3), +and thus usually never needs to be set. + +The +.B sethostid +call is restricted to the superuser. + +The +.I hostid +argument is stored in the file +.IR /etc/hostid . +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +.B gethostid +returns the 32-bit identifier for the current host as set by +.BR sethostid (2). +.SH "CONFORMING TO" +4.2BSD. These functions were dropped in 4.4BSD. +POSIX.1 does not define these functions, but ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 mentions +them in B.4.4.1. SVr4 includes +.B gethostid +but not +.BR sethostid . +.SH FILES +.I /etc/hostid +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR hostid (1), +.BR gethostbyname (3) |