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RE: gethostid anyone?
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:01:20 -0000
- Subject: RE: gethostid anyone?
> 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.
Chris