The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6
IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition
Copyright © 2001-2003 The IEEE and The Open Group, All Rights reserved.

NAME

gethostname - get name of current host

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int gethostname(char *name, size_t namelen);

DESCRIPTION

The gethostname() function shall return the standard host name for the current machine. The namelen argument shall specify the size of the array pointed to by the name argument. The returned name shall be null-terminated, except that if namelen is an insufficient length to hold the host name, then the returned name shall be truncated and it is unspecified whether the returned name is null-terminated.

Host names are limited to {HOST_NAME_MAX} bytes.

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, 0 shall be returned; otherwise, -1 shall be returned.

ERRORS

No errors are defined.

The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

gethostid() , uname() , the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <unistd.h>

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 6. Derived from the XNS, Issue 5.2 specification.

The Open Group Base Resolution bwg2001-008 is applied, changing the namelen parameter from socklen_t to size_t.

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