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                     20: .TH GETHOSTNAME 2 "June 23, 1990"
                     21: .UC 5
                     22: .SH NAME
                     23: gethostname, sethostname \- get/set name of current host
                     24: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     25: .nf
                     26: .ft B
                     27: gethostname(name, namelen)
                     28: char *name;
                     29: int namelen;
                     30: .PP
                     31: .ft B
                     32: sethostname(name, namelen)
                     33: char *name;
                     34: int namelen;
                     35: .fi
                     36: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     37: .I Gethostname
                     38: returns the standard host name for the current processor, as
                     39: previously set by
                     40: .IR sethostname . 
                     41: The parameter
                     42: .I namelen
                     43: specifies the size of the 
                     44: .I name
                     45: array.  The returned name is null-terminated unless insufficient
                     46: space is provided.
                     47: .PP
                     48: .I Sethostname
                     49: sets the name of the host machine to be
                     50: .IR name ,
                     51: which has length
                     52: .IR namelen .
                     53: This call is restricted to the super-user and
                     54: is normally used only when the system is bootstrapped.
                     55: .SH "RETURN VALUE
                     56: If the call succeeds a value of 0 is returned.  If the call
                     57: fails, then a value of \-1 is returned and an error code is
                     58: placed in the global location \fIerrno\fP.
                     59: .SH "ERRORS
                     60: The following errors may be returned by these calls:
                     61: .TP 15
                     62: [EFAULT]
                     63: The \fIname\fP or \fInamelen\fP parameter gave an
                     64: invalid address.
                     65: .TP 15
                     66: [EPERM]
                     67: The caller tried to set the hostname and was not the super-user.
                     68: .SH SEE ALSO
                     69: gethostid(2)
                     70: .SH BUGS
                     71: Host names are limited to MAXHOSTNAMELEN (from
                     72: .IR <sys/param.h> )
                     73: characters, currently 64.

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