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RE: gethostid anyone?
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:40:28 +0100
- Subject: RE: gethostid anyone?
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:01:20AM -0000, Chris January wrote:
> >> Anyone interested in implementing a working gethostid? It should be
> >> trivial to have it returned a munged IP address like linux but it
> >> might be more interesting if it returned something more unique than
> >> that.
> >>
> >> I was playing around with uuidgen to see if that could be used to
> >> generate something unique but it creates too many bits. I thought
> >> it might be interesting to use it to seed a /etc/hostid file, though.
> >>
> >> Anyway, this would be a good project for anyone interested in
> contributing
> >> something. It would also remove an XFAIL from the test suite.
> >
> >I could probably come up with a patch for this.
> >How about using a hash of the following items:
> >1. Processor serial no. (if available)
> >2. MAC address of first ethernet card (if available)
> >3. Windows product id
> >4. Capacity of drive C:
> >5. Anything else lying around.
> >
> >There would need to be an option to turn this off however as some privacy
> >freaks would probably complain despite the hashing.
>
> Any chance of getting something for cygwin 1.3.23?
This is coming...
Chris