Subject: Re: kern.hostid
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/15/2004 09:14:05
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:03:46AM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> the kern.hostid node is currently an "int", which means that if the
> hostid that the kernel returns has the high bit set, it gets prints as
> a negative number.  regardless of the fact that the hostid is largely
> meaningless (wrt sign, not to those applications that care about its
> value), perhaps it might make more sense for it to be printed as a hex
> number, much like the output of the solaris hostid command?
>=20
> anyone care?  or shall i just change it?

Just change it.

Take care,

Bill

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