Bug 6056

Summary:	hostid utility sometimes prints 64-bit number
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	Alexander Zubkov <green>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Alexander Zubkov 2013-03-03 10:55:40 UTC

hostid should print 32-bit number. But on platforms with 64-bit long (which is used for storing hostid) it can output 64-bit numbers in some cases:
# ./busybox hostid
ffffffffb45de613
In linux coreutils this case is specially commented:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/hostid.c
It happens when hostid number is sign-extended.

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2013-03-04 02:06:53 UTC

commit 9bbf6b98c42a212b8a4b1aa02975ac18bb612922
Author: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date:   Mon Mar 4 03:04:38 2013 +0100

    hostid: do not output sign-extended host id. Closes 6056