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NAME
       gethostname — get name of current host


SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       int gethostname(char *name, size_t namelen);


DESCRIPTION
       The  gethostname()  function  shall  return  the standard host name for the current machine.  The namelen
       argument shall specify the size of the array pointed to by the name argument. The returned name shall  be
       null-terminated,  except  that  if  namelen  is  an  insufficient  length to hold the host name, then the
       returned name shall be truncated and it is unspecified whether the returned name is null-terminated.

       Host names are limited to {HOST_NAME_MAX} bytes.


RETURN VALUE
       Upon successful completion, 0 shall be returned; otherwise, -1 shall be returned.


ERRORS
       No errors are defined.

       The following sections are informative.


EXAMPLES
       None.


APPLICATION USAGE
       None.


RATIONALE
       None.


FUTURE DIRECTIONS
       None.


SEE ALSO
       gethostid(), uname()

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <unistd.h>


       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard
       for  Information  Technology  --  Portable  Operating  System  Interface  (POSIX),  The  Open  Group Base
       Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical  and  Electronics
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