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Re: [sg]ethostid(3) and FHS

To: jakub at redhat dot com
Subject: Re: [sg]ethostid(3) and FHS
From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:39:45 +0200 (MET DST)
CC: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com
References: <20000907103807.K491@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>

   Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:38:08 +0200
   From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

   Hi!

   /var/adm does not exist in FHS for quite some time, yet
   sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c still references (/var/adm/hostid),
   which means gethostid and sethostid don't work for quite some time.
   Any ideas on what's the best path to replace it with?
   >From quick skimming of FHS 2.1 it looks like /var/lib/hostid or
   /var/lib/misc/hostid could be ok...

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.

Mark

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