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Sys::Hostname

NAME

Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname

SYNOPSIS

  1. use Sys::Hostname;
  2. $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>