gethostname man page on SmartOS

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GETHOSTNAME(3XNET)					    GETHOSTNAME(3XNET)

NAME
       gethostname - get name of current host

SYNOPSIS
       cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lxnet [ library ... ]
       #include <unistd.h>

       int gethostname(char *name, size_t namelen);

DESCRIPTION
       The  gethostname() function returns the standard host name for the cur‐
       rent machine.  The namelen argument specifies the  size	of  the	 array
       pointed to by the name argument.	 The returned name is null-terminated,
       except that if namelen is an insufficient length to hold the host name,
       then  the  returned name is truncated and it is unspecified whether the
       returned name is null-terminated.

       Host names are limited to 255 bytes.

RETURN VALUES
       On successful completion, 0 is returned.	 Otherwise, -1 is returned.

ERRORS
       No errors are defined.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
       │  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
       │Interface Stability │ Standard	      │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
       │MT-Level	    │ MT-Safe	      │
       └────────────────────┴─────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       uname(1), gethostid(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)

				 Jun 10, 2002		    GETHOSTNAME(3XNET)

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