Sys::Hostname
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>
