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Manpages Sys::HostnameSection: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (3perl)Updated: 2001-03-03 Index Return to Main Contents NAMESys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostnameSYNOPSISuse Sys::Hostname; $host = hostname; DESCRIPTIONAttempts several methods of getting the system hostname and then caches the result. It tries the first available of the C library's gethostname(), `$Config{aphostname}`, uname(2), "syscall(SYS_gethostname)", `hostname`, `uname -n`, and the file /com/host. If all that fails it "croak"s.All NULs, returns, and newlines are removed from the result. AUTHORDavid Sundstrom <sunds@asictest.sc.ti.com>Texas Instruments XS code added by Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
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