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Manual Reference Pages  - Sys::Hostname (3pm)

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

CONTENTS

    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 croaks.

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>

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