GETHOSTNAME(P)						     POSIX Programmer's Manual						    GETHOSTNAME(P)

NAME

       gethostname - get name of current host

SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>

       int gethostname(char *name, size_t namelen);

DESCRIPTION

       The  gethostname() function shall return the standard host name for the current machine. The namelen argument shall specify the size of the
       array pointed to by the name argument.  The returned name shall be null-terminated, except that if namelen is  an  insufficient	length	to
       hold the host name, then the returned name shall be truncated and it is unspecified whether the returned name is null-terminated.

       Host names are limited to {HOST_NAME_MAX} bytes.

RETURN VALUE

       Upon successful completion, 0 shall be returned; otherwise, -1 shall be returned.

ERRORS

       No errors are defined.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE

       None.

RATIONALE

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       None.

SEE ALSO

       gethostid() , uname() , the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <unistd.h>

COPYRIGHT

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
       ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of
       Electrical  and	Electronics  Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE
       and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can  be  obtained
       online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

IEEE
/The Open Group						       2003							    GETHOSTNAME(P)