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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Dumb question:  why is "gethostid" a system call?
Message-ID: <5071@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 13:04:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  4 13:04:25 1985
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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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