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Sys::Hostname(3pm)                    Perl Programmers Reference Guide                    Sys::Hostname(3pm)



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_geth-ostname)", "syscall(SYS_gethostname)",
       ostname)", `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 v5.8.8                                      2001-09-21                               Sys::Hostname(3pm)