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gethostid.3: Added BUGS section noting that ID can't be guaranteed to be unique 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ passes that hostname to
in order to obtain the host's IPv4 address,
and returns a value obtained by bit-twiddling the IPv4 address.
(This value may not be unique.)
.SH BUGS
It is impossible to ensure that the identifier is globally unique.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR hostid (1),
.BR gethostbyname (3)