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 gethost-
       name(), `$Config{aphostname}`, uname(2), "syscall(SYSgethostname)",
       `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 

       Texas Instruments

       XS code added by Greg Bacon 



perl v5.8.8                       2001-09-21                Sys::Hostname(3pm)