hostid patch

Nicholas Wourms nwourms@netscape.net
Tue Apr 29 18:32:00 GMT 2003


chris@atomice.net wrote:
>>>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.
> 
> 
> ping...
> 

On WinME, using the hostid sources from coreutils, I'm 
getting consistant results.

Cheers,
Nicholas





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