>> It proved to be a simple matter to add a sethostid() syscall to the
>> kernel - and this was SunOS, a vendor binary-only kernel.

> You don't need to go even that far.  The other day I hacked up a
> little shared lib that you put in LD_PRELOAD under Solaris.

(a) I don't think I knew about LD_PRELOAD at the time (this was long
ago, back before Solaris existed - as I said, today I'd approach the
problem rather differently); (b) I'm not sure the application in
question wasn't statically linked.

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