Sys::Hostname(3pePerl Programmers Reference GSys::Hostname(e)



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(e), "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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