Re: Workaround for hostid on Darwin 8/MacPPC

[C. Speare]

Ah, true. I'll lean on Apple to provide a non-broken gethostid(), since I 
can't think of a nice (clean, portable) way to handle this.

Thank you.

On Thu, 3 May 2007, John Cowan wrote:

> C. Speare scripsit:
>
> > A possible (but weak)  workaround is to test for the case where id is 0.
>
> It's fine to detect that case, but the whole idea of hostid is to
> return the same value each time it's called on the same host,
> so returning a random value is unhelpful.
>
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