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author | guido <guido@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-12-18 14:06:39 +0000 |
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committer | guido <guido@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-12-18 14:06:39 +0000 |
commit | a02b6b3152d2506eddd7202deb256dc763f70459 (patch) | |
tree | 0b3e6d78c508b7bde2d9db716e0aabe60229b6aa /lib/libc/gen/getdomainname.3 | |
parent | d5d67ed4617890c6998f710cc891181cc5daa51e (diff) | |
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Add missing getdomainname manual page.
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Obtained from: 1.1.5.1 with a few modifictaions.
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diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/getdomainname.3 b/lib/libc/gen/getdomainname.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ba5995 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc/gen/getdomainname.3 @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" from: @(#)getdomainname.2 6.7 (Berkeley) 3/10/91 +.\" $Id: getdomainname.2,v 1.1 1993/10/25 03:11:30 rgrimes Exp $ +.\" +.Dd March 10, 1991 +.Dt GETDOMAINNAME 3 +.Os BSD 4.2 +.Sh NAME +.Nm getdomainname , +.Nm setdomainname +.Nd get/set name of current host +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Fd #include <unistd.h> +.Ft int +.Fn getdomainname "char *name" "int namelen" +.Ft int +.Fn setdomainname "const char *name" "int namelen" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Fn Getdomainname +returns the standard host name for the current processor, as +previously set by +.Fn setdomainname . +The parameter +.Fa namelen +specifies the size of the +.Fa name +array. The returned name is null-terminated unless insufficient +space is provided. +.Pp +.Fn Setdomainname +sets the name of the host machine to be +.Fa name , +which has length +.Fa namelen . +This call is restricted to the super-user and +is normally used only when the system is bootstrapped. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +If the call succeeds a value of 0 is returned. If the call +fails, a value of -1 is returned and an error code is +placed in the global location +.Va errno . +.Sh ERRORS +The following errors may be returned by these calls: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EFAULT +The +.Fa name +or +.Fa namelen +parameter gave an +invalid address. +.It Bq Er EPERM +The caller tried to set the domainname and was not the super-user. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr sysctl 2 +.Xr gethostid 3 +.Sh BUGS +Host names are limited to +.Dv MAXHOSTNAMELEN +(from +.Ao Pa sys/param.h Ac ) +characters, currently 256. +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +function call appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . |