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29 .TH GETDOMAINNAME 2 2021-03-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
31 getdomainname, setdomainname \- get/set NIS domain name
34 .B #include <unistd.h>
36 .BI "int getdomainname(char *" name ", size_t " len );
37 .BI "int setdomainname(const char *" name ", size_t " len );
41 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
42 .BR feature_test_macros (7)):
49 .\" commit 266865c0e7b79d4196e2cc393693463f03c90bd8
51 In glibc 2.19 and 2.20:
52 _DEFAULT_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500)
53 Up to and including glibc 2.19:
54 _BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500)
57 These functions are used to access or to change the NIS domain name of the
59 More precisely, they operate on the NIS domain name associated with the calling
60 process's UTS namespace.
63 sets the domain name to the value given in the character array
67 argument specifies the number of bytes in
71 does not require a terminating null byte.)
74 returns the null-terminated domain name in the character array
79 If the null-terminated domain name requires more than \fIlen\fP bytes,
81 returns the first \fIlen\fP bytes (glibc) or gives an error (libc).
83 On success, zero is returned.
84 On error, \-1 is returned, and
86 is set to indicate the error.
89 can fail with the following errors:
93 pointed outside of user address space.
97 was negative or too large.
100 The caller did not have the
102 capability in the user namespace associated with its UTS namespace (see
106 can fail with the following errors:
119 POSIX does not specify these calls.
120 .\" But they appear on most systems...
122 Since Linux 1.0, the limit on the length of a domain name,
123 including the terminating null byte, is 64 bytes.
124 In older kernels, it was 8 bytes.
126 On most Linux architectures (including x86),
129 system call; instead, glibc implements
131 as a library function that returns a copy of the
133 field returned from a call to
139 .BR uts_namespaces (7)