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Sys::Hostname(3perl)					 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				      Sys::Hostname(3perl)

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

SYNOPSIS
	   use Sys::Hostname;
	   $host = hostname;

DESCRIPTION
       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 "croak"s.

       All NULs, returns, and newlines are removed from the result.

AUTHOR
       David Sundstrom <sunds@asictest.sc.ti.com>

       Texas Instruments

       XS code added by Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>

perl v5.14.2							    2011-09-19						      Sys::Hostname(3perl)