Manual page for GETHOSTNAME(2)
gethostname, sethostname - get/set name of current host
SYNOPSIS
gethostname(name, namelen)
char *name;
int namelen;
sethostname(name, namelen)
char *name;
int 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 normally used only when the system is bootstrapped.
RETURN VALUE
If the call succeeds a value of 0 is returned. If the call
fails, then a value of -1 is returned and an error code is
placed in the global location errno.
ERRORS
The following errors may be returned by these calls:
- [EFAULT]
-
The name or namelen parameter gave an
invalid address.
- [EPERM]
-
The caller tried to set the hostname and was not the super-user.
SEE ALSO
gethostid(2)
BUGS
Host names are limited to MAXHOSTNAMELEN (from
<sys/param.h>)
characters, currently 256.
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Last modified 11/5/97
