hostid patch

[Chris January]

> > 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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