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gethostid.3: Minor wording improvements 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -46,7 +46,10 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
_BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE\ <\ 500)
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.SH DESCRIPTION
Get or set a unique 32-bit identifier for the current machine.
.BR gethostid ()
and
.BR sethostid ()
respectively get or set a unique 32-bit identifier for the current machine.
The 32-bit identifier is intended to be unique among all Unix systems in
existence.
This normally resembles the Internet address for the local