Subject: Re: kern.hostid
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@NetBSD.org>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/16/2004 14:01:25
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:14:05AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>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?
>>
>> anyone care? or shall i just change it?
>
>Just change it.
okay then! it done. thanks.
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