1 /* Copyright (C) 1993-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
6 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
15 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
16 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
23 /* Set the current machine's Internet number to ID.
24 This call is restricted to the super-user. */
25 /* XXX should be __sethostid?
26 isn't hostid supposed to be hardwired and unchangeable? */
28 sethostid (long int id
)
33 /* The hostid is kept in the file /etc/hostid,
34 eight characters of upper-case hexadecimal. */
36 bp
= _itoa_word (id
, &buf
[sizeof buf
], 16, 1);
40 n
= _hurd_set_host_config ("/etc/hostid", buf
, sizeof buf
);
41 return n
< 0 ? -1 : 0;