From 9bbf6b98c42a212b8a4b1aa02975ac18bb612922 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denys Vlasenko Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 03:04:38 +0100 Subject: hostid: do not output sign-extended host id. Closes 6056 Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko --- coreutils/hostid.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'coreutils') diff --git a/coreutils/hostid.c b/coreutils/hostid.c index 5c1a4e086..e5b1f5188 100644 --- a/coreutils/hostid.c +++ b/coreutils/hostid.c @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ int hostid_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv UNUSED_PARAM) bb_show_usage(); } - printf("%08lx\n", gethostid()); + /* POSIX says gethostid returns a "32-bit identifier" */ + printf("%08x\n", (unsigned)(uint32_t)gethostid()); return fflush_all(); } -- cgit v1.2.3