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by **xa..** » Wed, 13 Jul 1994 05:06:31

This is probably easy:

I have to get the "unique-id" or "machine-id", but want my code to
be as portable as possible.
I found gethostid() to work, under SunOs (and probably any BSD-like Unix ???)
and uname() under HP/UX (and probably any SysV ???).

Am I right, or there are more secrets(?!) behind the scenes???

Thanks in advance.

by **Paul Stephen Bori** » Thu, 14 Jul 1994 00:46:15

> I have to get the "unique-id" or "machine-id", but want my code to
> be as portable as possible.
> I found gethostid() to work, under SunOs (and probably any BSD-like Unix ???)
> and uname() under HP/UX (and probably any SysV ???).

On my machine ( Tandem NonStopUX ) which is SysV R3 gethostid() returns my
Internet Address. The same works for Interactive i386 3.2.

-Paul
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