On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:39:13PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Ah, as Lennart just pointed out, you really don't want to use that, it > can't be trusted on a lot of platforms. Unless you don't mind having > the same value for lots of different machines :) > > What do you want to use this value for? It's going to be used to persistently and uniquely identify systems in a network. The hostname can't be used since it's possible for a system to come up with a different hostname within DHCP. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/
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