On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:10:51PM +0200, Oren Amit wrote: > What wrong with gethostid() ?
That it returns your IP address, which isn't too unique. -- Didi > > Rony Shapiro wrote: > > >In commercial systems, the MAC address of the Ethernet NIC is considered > >a unique identifier of the computer. > > > >Assuming that the machine has a NIC, of course. > > > > Rony > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen > >>Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 12:32 > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: Unique identification of a computer > >> > >> > >>On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:04:01AM +0200, David Sapir wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hi, > >>>When I read from /proc/ide/ide0/hda/identify : is it a > >>> > >>> > >>unique number? > >> > >> > >>>Is > >>>this the unique ID of the hard disk? > >>> > >>> > >>If the computer has such a disk. What about all-scsi system? > >> > >>If the disk is replaced? > >> > >>If the disk is moved to a different system? > >> > >> > >>-- > >>Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ > >>http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| > >>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ > >> > >>================================================================= > >>To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run > >>the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >================================================================= > >To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > >the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > >echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
