GETHOSTID(3P)

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NAME
gethostid — get an identifier for the current host

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

long gethostid(void);

DESCRIPTION
The gethostid() function shall retrieve a 32-bit identifier for the current host.

RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, gethostid() shall return an identifier for the current host.

ERRORS
No errors are defined.

The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES
None.

APPLICATION USAGE
This volume of POSIX.1-2008 does not define the domain in which the return value is unique.

RATIONALE
None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.

SEE ALSO
initstate()

The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008, <unistd.h>

COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html . Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .