Manpages - Sys_Hostname.3perl

Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname

use Sys::Hostname; $host = hostname;

Attempts several methods of getting the system hostname and then caches the result. It tries the first available of the C library’s gethostname(), `$Config{aphostname}`, uname (2), syscall(SYS_gethostname), `hostname`, `uname -n`, and the file /com/host. If all that fails it =croak=s.

All NULs, returns, and newlines are removed from the result.

David Sundstrom </sunds@asictest.sc.ti.com/>

Texas Instruments

XS code added by Greg Bacon </gbacon@cs.uah.edu/>