Name
gethostid, sethostid — get or set the unique identifier of the current host
Synopsis
#include <unistd.h>
long gethostid( |
void); |
int sethostid( |
long hostid); |
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DESCRIPTION
gethostid() and sethostid() respectively 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 gethostbyname(3), and thus
usually never needs to be set.
The sethostid() call is
restricted to the superuser.
RETURN VALUE
gethostid() returns the
32-bit identifier for the current host as set by sethostid().
On success, sethostid()
returns 0; on error, −1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
sethostid() can fail with
the following errors:
- EACCES
-
The caller did not have permission to write to the file used to store the host ID.
- EPERM
-
The calling process's effective user or group ID is not the same as its corresponding real ID.
CONFORMING TO
4.2BSD; these functions were dropped in 4.4BSD. SVr4
includes gethostid() but not
sethostid(). POSIX.1-2001
specifies gethostid() but not
sethostid().
NOTES
In the glibc implementation, the hostid is stored in the file
/etc/hostid. (In glibc versions
before 2.2, the file /var/adm/hostid was used.)
In the glibc implementation, if gethostid() cannot open the file containing
the host ID, then it obtains the hostname using gethostname(2), passes that
hostname to gethostbyname_r(3) in order
to obtain the host's IPv4 address, and returns a value
obtained by bit-twiddling the IPv4 address. (This value may
not be unique.)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.24 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting
bugs, can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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