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RE: hostid patch
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: "Cygwin-Patches at Cygwin dot Com" <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:19:14 +0100
- Subject: RE: hostid patch
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 08:55:08PM +0100, Chris January wrote:
> > >*Not* tested on anything other than Windows XP.
> > >
> > >Adds gethostid function to Cygwin. Three patches: one for
> Cygwin, one for
> > >newlib and one for w32api.
> > >If I've done anything wrong let me know and I'll try to fix it.
> >
> > I tried this on Windows XP and, when run repeatedly, I get two
> > different numbers:
> >
> > m:\test>gethostid
> > 0xf9926a74
> >
> > m:\test>gethostid
> > 0xdfd35415
> >
> > The highly sophisticated program that I'm using is below.
> >
> > I take it this doesn't happen to you, Chris?
> Can you send me two strace outputs with different results please?
> There are debug_printf's all the way through the hostid function
> that output
> the result at each stage and these can be used to identify which value is
> changing between calls.
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