From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:35:44 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: gethostid.3: wfix: s/is intended/was intended/
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gethostid.3: wfix: s/is intended/was intended/

The host ID might once have been intended to be globally unique,
but that turned out not to feasible.

Reported-by: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man3/gethostid.3 b/man3/gethostid.3
index b355b0ffa5..01d674ca2b 100644
--- a/man3/gethostid.3
+++ b/man3/gethostid.3
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500
 and
 .BR sethostid ()
 respectively get or set a unique 32-bit identifier for the current machine.
-The 32-bit identifier is intended to be unique among all UNIX systems in
+The 32-bit identifier was intended to be unique among all UNIX systems in
 existence.
 This normally resembles the Internet address for the local
 machine, as returned by