Shouldn't hostid be purged entirely and live in compat code only?
I'd hate to add another uses to it.

Jaromir

Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hi,
> I've recently needed (for reasons I don't want to explain in a public
> forum :) to run on the same machine different processes which need to "see"
> different hostid. For this I've implemented a per-process hostid
> (trivial with the proc.<pid> sysctl tree :). The attached patch is incomplete,
> especially I didn't deal with a few issues:
> - gethostid() call in libc
> - whenever we want a new MIB for kern.sysctl, and have the old one
>   return proc.$$.hostid (for binary compatibility with older programs).
> 
> I'll handle this if this change is to be commited.
> 
> Does anyone has strong objections about this being commited ?
> I agree this is a special use of hostid :)
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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