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NAME

Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname

SYNOPSIS

use Sys::Hostname;
my $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 croaks.

All NULs, returns, and newlines are removed from the result.

AUTHOR

David Sundstrom <[email protected]>

Texas Instruments

XS code added by Greg Bacon <[email protected]>