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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-06-25 21:35:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-06-25 21:35:44 +0200 |
| commit | fb033b1e18bf1a35de15f066613558f9021a63c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 6db8ff006d8da26dc3ae0aaf97ce3373048904e2 | |
| parent | af04113d0c60e1f21d216e7f25e2dc1cabbf17be (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-fb033b1e18bf1a35de15f066613558f9021a63c1.tar.gz | |
gethostid.3: wfix: s/is intended/was intended/
The host ID might once have been intended to be globally unique,
but that turned out not to feasible.
Reported-by: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/gethostid.3 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man3/gethostid.3 b/man3/gethostid.3 index b355b0ffa5..01d674ca2b 100644 --- a/man3/gethostid.3 +++ b/man3/gethostid.3 @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500 and .BR sethostid () respectively get or set a unique 32-bit identifier for the current machine. -The 32-bit identifier is intended to be unique among all UNIX systems in +The 32-bit identifier was intended to be unique among all UNIX systems in existence. This normally resembles the Internet address for the local machine, as returned by |