gethostname(3) [netbsd man page]
GETHOSTNAME(3) BSD Library Functions Manual GETHOSTNAME(3) NAME
gethostname, sethostname -- get/set name of current host LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> int gethostname(char *name, size_t namelen); int sethostname(const char *name, size_t 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 nor- mally used only when the system is bootstrapped. RETURN VALUES
If the call succeeds a value of 0 is returned. If the call fails, a value of -1 is returned and an error code is placed in the global loca- tion errno. ERRORS
If the gethostname() or sethostname() functions fail, they will set errno for any of the errors specified for the routine sysctl(3). SEE ALSO
gethostid(3), sysctl(3), sysctl(8) STANDARDS
The gethostname() function conforms to X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4, Version 2 (``XPG4.2''). HISTORY
The gethostname function call appeared in 4.2BSD. BUGS
Host names are limited to MAXHOSTNAMELEN (from <sys/param.h>) characters including null-termination, currently 256. BSD
October 14, 2005 BSD
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GETHOSTNAME(3) BSD Library Functions Manual GETHOSTNAME(3) NAME
gethostname, sethostname -- get/set name of current host LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> int gethostname(char *name, size_t namelen); int sethostname(const char *name, int namelen); DESCRIPTION
The gethostname() function returns the standard host name for the current processor, as previously set by sethostname(). The namelen argu- ment specifies the size of the name array. The returned name is null-terminated, unless insufficient space is provided. The sethostname() function 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. Host names are limited to {HOST_NAME_MAX} characters, not including the trailing null, currently 255. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
The following errors may be returned by these calls: [EFAULT] The name or namelen argument gave an invalid address. [ENAMETOOLONG] The current host name is longer than namelen. (For gethostname() only.) [EPERM] The caller tried to set the host name and was not the super-user. SEE ALSO
sysconf(3), sysctl(3) STANDARDS
The gethostname() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). Callers should be aware that {HOST_NAME_MAX} may be variable or infinite, but is guaranteed to be no less than {_POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX}. On older systems, this limit was defined in the non-standard header <sys/param.h> as MAXHOSTNAMELEN, and counted the terminating null. The sethostname() function and the error returns for gethostname() are not standardized. HISTORY
The gethostname() function appeared in 4.2BSD. The namelen argument to gethostname() was changed to size_t in FreeBSD 5.2 for alignment with IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). BSD
August 18, 2003 BSD