The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 edition
IEEE Std 1003.1-2017 (Revision of IEEE Std 1003.1-2008)
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NAME
gethostid - get an identifier for the current host
SYNOPSIS
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.1-2017 does not define the domain in which the return value is unique.
RATIONALE
None.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
SEE ALSO
initstate
XBD <unistd.h>
CHANGE HISTORY
First released in Issue 4, Version 2.
Issue 5
Moved from X/OPEN UNIX extension to BASE.
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