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HP-UX Reference > Ggethostname(2)HP-UX 11i Version 2: December 2007 Update |
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NAMEgethostname() — get name of current host system DESCRIPTIONgethostname() returns in the array to which hostname points, the standard host name for the current system as set by sethostname() (see sethostname(2)). size specifies the length of the hostname array. hostname is null-terminated unless insufficient space is provided. RETURN VALUEgethostname() returns 0 if successful. Otherwise, it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error. ERRORSgethostname() can fail if the following is true:
WARNINGSIt is recommended that programs use sysconf(_SC_HOST_NAME_MAX) to dynamically size the buffer used to accept the host name from gethostname(). This is preferred over use of the MAXHOSTNAMELEN constant. For cases where the MAXHOSTNAMELEN constant must be used, there are two values: 64 and 256. The smaller value is compatible with current releases and is used by default. To use the larger value consult the related documentation (see nodehostnamesize(5)). The administrator may, with appropriate configuration options enabled, set a host name larger than 64 bytes. Existing applications which were compiled using the smaller MAXHOSTNAMELEN to size a buffer passed to the gethostname() system function obtain only the first 64 bytes. This truncation may cause the applications to exhibit anomalous behavior or to fail. |
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