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Date:      Sat, 7 Apr 2007 21:28:46 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To:        Julien Gabel <julien.gabel@thilelli.net>
Cc:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Host ID.
Message-ID:  <20070407202846.GK90410@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <e47373630704070821u224f03d7q505e01a2e967f777@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20070407120656.GD63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <cb5206420704070607j7afe5349r180151dac1ec3e92@mail.gmail.com> <20070407145154.GG63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <cb5206420704070808t183dd708v489564d27c0d34dc@mail.gmail.com> <e47373630704070821u224f03d7q505e01a2e967f777@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:21:25PM +0200, Julien Gabel wrote:
> >There's even a business [1] selling software to change
> >Solaris hostid for ?49. Should I squat freebsdhostid.com? :)
> >
> >[1] http://www.solarishostid.com/
>=20
> For free, you generally can fake it by rewriting the gethostid
> function along with the use
> of ${LD_PRELOAD}; or use DTrace if using a Solaris 10 system :)

While thinking along these lines, what will we do on sparc64 systems,
which will generally print a hostid on the console at boot time which
will be significantly different to the one that we'll be presenting
within FreeBSD on those systems?

I suspect that this is just a documentation issue, but it would be
somewhat confusing.

Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere

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