gethostname(3XNETX/Open Networking Services Library Functiongethostname(3XNET)NAMEgethostname - get name of current host
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lxnet [ library ... ]
#include <unistd.h>
int gethostname(char *name, size_t namelen);
DESCRIPTION
The gethostname() function returns the standard host name for the cur‐
rent machine. The namelen argument specifies the size of the array
pointed to by the name argument. The returned name is null-terminated,
except that if namelen is an insufficient length to hold the host name,
then the returned name is truncated and it is unspecified whether the
returned name is null-terminated.
Host names are limited to 255 bytes.
RETURN VALUES
On successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned.
ERRORS
No errors are defined.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │Committed │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│MT-Level │MT-Safe │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Standard │See standards(5). │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOuname(1), gethostid(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 10 Jun 2002 gethostname(3XNET)