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# Sys::Hostname

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# Sys::Hostname

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# 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 <sunds@asictest.sc.ti.com>

Texas Instruments

XS code added by Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>

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