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GETDOMAINNAME(2) Linux Programmer's Manual GETDOMAINNAME(2)
getdomainname, setdomainname - get/set domain name
#include <unistd.h>
int getdomainname(char *name, size_t len);
int setdomainname(const char *name, size_t len);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
getdomainname(), setdomainname():
_BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500)
These functions are used to access or to change the domain name of the host
system.
setdomainname() sets the domain name to the value given in the character array
name. The len argument specifies the number of bytes in name. (Thus, name
does not require a terminating null byte.)
getdomainname() returns the null-terminated domain name in the character array
name, which has a length of len bytes. If the null-terminated domain name
requires more than len bytes, getdomainname() returns the first len bytes
(glibc) or gives an error (libc).
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set
appropriately.
setdomainname() can fail with the following errors:
EFAULT name pointed outside of user address space.
EINVAL len was negative or too large.
EPERM the caller is unprivileged (Linux: does not have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN
capability).
getdomainname() can fail with the following errors:
EINVAL For getdomainname() under libc: name is NULL or name is longer than len
bytes.
POSIX does not specify these calls.
Since Linux 1.0, the limit on the length of a domain name, including the
terminating null byte, is 64 bytes. In older kernels, it was 8 bytes.
On most Linux architectures (including x86), there is no getdomainname()
system call; instead, glibc implements getdomainname() as a library function
that returns a copy of the domainname field returned from a call to uname(2).
gethostname(2), sethostname(2), uname(2)
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Linux 2009-09-27 GETDOMAINNAME(2)
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