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NAME

Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname

SYNOPSIS

    use Sys::Hostname;
    $host = hostname;

DESCRIPTION

Attempts several methods of getting the system hostname and then caches the result. It tries the the C library's gethostname(). If that fails it dies.

All NULs, returns, and newlines are removed from the result.

AUTHOR

David Sundstrom <sunds@asictest.sc.ti.com>

Texas Instruments

XS code added by Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>