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gethostid.3: wfix: s/is intended/was intended/ 

The host ID might once have been intended to be globally unique,
but that turned out not to feasible.

Reported-by: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500
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
The 32-bit identifier was intended to be unique among all UNIX systems in
existence.
This normally resembles the Internet address for the local
machine, as returned by