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28 .\" @(#)gethostname.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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38 .Nd get/set name of current host
44 .Fn gethostname "char *name" "size_t namelen"
46 .Fn sethostname "const char *name" "int namelen"
51 returns the standard host name for the current processor, as
57 specifies the size of the
60 The returned name is null-terminated unless insufficient space is provided.
65 sets the name of the host machine to be
69 This call is restricted to the super-user and
70 is normally used only when the system is bootstrapped.
72 Host names are limited to
74 characters, not including the trailing null, currently 255.
78 The following errors may be returned by these calls:
87 .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
88 The current host name is longer than
94 The caller tried to set the host name and was not the super-user.
104 Callers should be aware that
105 .Brq Dv HOST_NAME_MAX
106 may be variable or infinite, but is guaranteed to be no less than
107 .Brq Dv _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX .
108 On older systems, this limit was defined in the non-standard header
112 and counted the terminating null.
115 function and the error returns for
117 are not standardized.