GETDOMAINAME(3)         BSD Library Functions Manual         GETDOMAINAME(3)

NAME
     getdomainname, setdomainname -- get/set NIS domain name of current host

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     ##include <>

     int
     getdomainname(char *name, int namelen);

     int
     setdomainname(const char *name, int namelen);

DESCRIPTION
     Getdomainname() returns the standard NIS domain name for the current
     host, as previously set by setdomainname().  The parameter namelen speci-
     fies the size of the name array.  The returned name is null-terminated
     unless insufficient space is provided.

     Setdomainname() sets the NIS domain name of the host machine to be name,
     which has length namelen.  This call is restricted to the super-user and
     is normally used only when the system is bootstrapped.

RETURN VALUES
     Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the
     value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
     error.

ERORS
     The following errors may be returned by these calls:

     [EFAULT]           The name or namelen parameter gave an invalid address.

     [EPERM]            The caller tried to set the hostname and was not the
                        super-user.

SEE ALSO
     gethostid(3), gethostname(3), sysctl(3)

BUGS
     Domain names are limited to MAXHOSTNAMELEN (from ) charac-
     ters, currently 256.

HISTORY
     The getdomainname() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.

BSD                               May 6, 1994                              BSD