Re: Workaround for hostid on Darwin 8/MacPPC

[John Cowan]

C. Speare scripsit:

> A possible (but weak)  workaround is to test for the case where id is 0. 

It's fine to detect that case, but the whole idea of hostid is to
return the same value each time it's called on the same host,
so returning a random value is unhelpful.

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