Sys::Hostname

Sys::Hostname(3)       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 gethost-
       name(), `$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 v5.8.6                       2001-09-21                  Sys::Hostname(3)