[git commit] hostid: do not output sign-extended host id. Closes 6056

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 4 02:04:38 UTC 2013


commit: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=9bbf6b98c42a212b8a4b1aa02975ac18bb612922
branch: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
---
 coreutils/hostid.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/coreutils/hostid.c b/coreutils/hostid.c
index 5c1a4e0..e5b1f51 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();
 }


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