


Sys::Hostname(3p)Perl Programmers Reference GuidSys::Hostname(3p)


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>

































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