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_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 <sundsATasictest.com>

       Texas Instruments

       XS code added by Greg Bacon <gbaconATcs.edu>



perl v5.12.4                                               2011-06-07                                         Sys::Hostname(3pm)