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1 /* gethostname emulation for SysV and POSIX.1.
2 Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7 any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
18 /* David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu> */
20 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
21 # include <config.h>
22 #endif
24 #ifdef HAVE_UNAME
25 # include <sys/utsname.h>
26 #endif
28 /* Put up to LEN chars of the host name into NAME.
29 Null terminate it if the name is shorter than LEN.
30 Return 0 if ok, -1 if error. */
32 int
33 gethostname (name, len)
34 char *name;
35 int len;
37 #ifdef HAVE_UNAME
38 struct utsname uts;
40 if (uname (&uts) == -1)
41 return -1;
42 if (len > sizeof (uts.nodename))
44 /* More space than we need is available. */
45 name[sizeof (uts.nodename)] = '\0';
46 len = sizeof (uts.nodename);
48 strncpy (name, uts.nodename, len);
49 #else
50 strcpy (name, ""); /* Hardcode your system name if you want. */
51 #endif
52 return 0;