From 525748e03a3c05133c804243578ea1096f8bd962 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:18:52 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] gethostid.3: Added BUGS section noting that ID can't be guaranteed to be unique Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man3/gethostid.3 | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/man3/gethostid.3 b/man3/gethostid.3 index 3ecac41a8..443d9972c 100644 --- a/man3/gethostid.3 +++ b/man3/gethostid.3 @@ -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)