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Sys::Hostname (3)

Name

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

Synopsis

use Sys::Hostname;
$host = hostname;

Description

Perl Programmers Reference Guide                              Sys::Hostname(3)



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>



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |   ATTRIBUTE VALUE     |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Availability   | runtime/perl-532      |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Stability      | Pass-through volatile |
       +---------------+-----------------------+

NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This software was built from source available at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.  The original community
       source was downloaded from
       http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.32.0.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://www.perl.org/.



perl v5.32.0                      2020-06-14                  Sys::Hostname(3)