NAME

gethostname − get name of current host

SYNOPSIS

char hostname[];
gethostname(hostname, sizeof (hostname));

DESCRIPTION

Gethostname returns the standard host name for the current processor, as set by sethostname(2). The name is truncated to sizeof(hostname)-1 and is null-terminated.

ERRORS

Gethostname can fail if:

­[EFAULT] Hostname points to an illegal address.  The reliable detection of this error will be implementation dependent. 

AUTHOR

Gethostname was developed by the University of California, Berkeley California, Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 

SEE ALSO

hostname(1), uname(1), sethostname(2), uname(2). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  Version B.1,  May 11, 2021