[sg]ethostid(3) and FHS

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Thu Sep 7 11:13:00 GMT 2000


Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> writes:

> We use /etc/hostid on the Hurd, which makes sense to me since in the
> absence of a *real* hardware serial number (which we probably don't
> really want) it basically becomes a system configuration thingy.

I think it's the correct place.  I"ve made this change now.

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