On Fri, Jul 01, 2011, Ted Unangst wrote:
> hostid is a long, and that ship has sailed, but still 64-bit archs should
> not truncate the value.
>
> I would like somebody to test this on a 64-bit machine. Even try
> setting a 64-bit hostid maybe.
never mind about this, it's a waste of time.
This might be useful.. but POSIX defines a hostid as 32-bit, however the use of
'long' makes it ambiguous.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/gethostid.html
Not sure if anything actually would break if you bumped this, do you know if
anything relies on it? or was it mainl
hostid is a long, and that ship has sailed, but still 64-bit archs should
not truncate the value.
I would like somebody to test this on a 64-bit machine. Even try
setting a 64-bit hostid maybe.
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