gethostid anyone?

[Christopher Faylor]

Anyone interested in implementing a working gethostid?  It should be
trivial to have it returned a munged IP address like linux but it
might be more interesting if it returned something more unique than
that.

I was playing around with uuidgen to see if that could be used to
generate something unique but it creates too many bits.  I thought
it might be interesting to use it to seed a /etc/hostid file, though.

Anyway, this would be a good project for anyone interested in contributing
something.  It would also remove an XFAIL from the test suite.

cgf