| PROLOG | NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | EXAMPLES | APPLICATION USAGE | RATIONALE | FUTURE DIRECTIONS | SEE ALSO | COPYRIGHT |  | 
GETHOSTID(3P)             POSIX Programmer's Manual            GETHOSTID(3P)
       This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux
       implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
       corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
       the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
       gethostid — get an identifier for the current host
       #include <unistd.h>
       long gethostid(void);
       The gethostid() function shall retrieve a 32-bit identifier for the
       current host.
       Upon successful completion, gethostid() shall return an identifier
       for the current host.
       No errors are defined.
       The following sections are informative.
       None.
       This volume of POSIX.1‐2008 does not define the domain in which the
       return value is unique.
       None.
       None.
       initstate(3p)
       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, unistd.h(0p)
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
       Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
       Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
       Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
       Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1
       applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and
       the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and
       The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
       Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .
       Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are
       most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the
       source files to man page format. To report such errors, see
       https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .
IEEE/The Open Group                 2013                       GETHOSTID(3P)
Pages that refer to this page: unistd.h(0p), gethostname(3p)