Dumb question: why is "gethostid" a system call?
Arthur David Olson
ado at elsie.UUCP
Tue Mar 5 04:04:25 AEST 1985
Why, in 4.2bsd, is "gethostid" a system call, rather than a function that
reads information from a file and returns what's read (possibly reformatted)?
If you know, tap that 'r' key (carefully avoiding the 'f' key!) and send me
mail letting me know why. Thanks.
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