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 <[email protected]>

Texas Instruments

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