From fb033b1e18bf1a35de15f066613558f9021a63c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 21:35:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man3/gethostid.3 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/gethostid.3 b/man3/gethostid.3 index b355b0ffa..01d674ca2 100644 --- a/man3/gethostid.3 +++ b/man3/gethostid.3 @@ -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