Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!ado 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 Article-I.D.: elsie.5071 Posted: Mon Mar 4 13:04:25 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 11:58:18 EST Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 10 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. -- UNIX is an AT&T Bell Laboratories trademark. -- UUCP: ..decvax!seismo!elsie!ado ARPA: elsie!ado@seismo.ARPA DEC, VAX and Elsie are Digital Equipment and Borden trademarks