GETHOSTNAME(3) 1 GETHOSTNAME(3)gethostname - Gets the host nameSYNOPSIS
string gethostname (void )
DESCRIPTION gethostname(3) gets the standard host name for the local machine.
RETURN VALUES
Returns a string with the hostname on success, otherwise FALSE is returned.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
A simple gethostname(3) example
<?php
echo gethostname(); // may output e.g,: sandie
// Or, an option that also works before PHP 5.3
echo php_uname('n'); // may output e.g,: sandie
?>
SEE ALSO gethostbyname(3), gethostbyaddr(3), php_uname(3).
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GETHOSTNAME(3) BSD Library Functions Manual GETHOSTNAME(3)NAME
gethostname, sethostname -- get/set name of current host
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int
gethostname(char *name, size_t namelen);
int
sethostname(const char *name, size_t namelen);
DESCRIPTION
gethostname() returns the standard host name for the current processor, as previously set by sethostname(). The parameter namelen specifies
the size of the name array. The returned name is null-terminated unless insufficient space is provided.
sethostname() sets the name of the host machine to be name, which has length namelen. This call is restricted to the super-user and is nor-
mally used only when the system is bootstrapped.
RETURN VALUES
If the call succeeds a value of 0 is returned. If the call fails, a value of -1 is returned and an error code is placed in the global loca-
tion errno.
ERRORS
If the gethostname() or sethostname() functions fail, they will set errno for any of the errors specified for the routine sysctl(3).
SEE ALSO gethostid(3), sysctl(3), sysctl(8)STANDARDS
The gethostname() function conforms to X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4, Version 2 (``XPG4.2'').
HISTORY
The gethostname function call appeared in 4.2BSD.
BUGS
Host names are limited to MAXHOSTNAMELEN (from <sys/param.h>) characters including null-termination, currently 256.
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