Originální popis anglicky:
gethostid, sethostid - get or set the unique identifier of the current host
Návod, kniha: Linux Programmer's Manual
#include <unistd.h>
long gethostid(void);
int sethostid(long hostid);
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 existence. This
normally resembles the Internet address for the local machine, as returned by
gethostbyname(3), and thus usually never needs to be set.
The
sethostid call is restricted to the superuser.
The
hostid argument is stored in the file
/etc/hostid.
gethostid returns the 32-bit identifier for the current host as set by
sethostid(2).
4.2BSD. These functions were dropped in 4.4BSD. POSIX.1 does not define these
functions, but ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 mentions them in B.4.4.1. SVr4 includes
gethostid but not
sethostid.
/etc/hostid
hostid(1),
gethostbyname(3)