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Documentation of what gnulib provides for each function.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Tue, 01 May 2007 15:11:37 +0000
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+@node gethostname
+@section @code{gethostname}
+@findex gethostname
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+POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/gethostname.html}
+
+Gnulib module: gethostname
+
+Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
+@itemize
+@item
+This function is missing on some platforms:
+mingw.
+@end itemize
+
+Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
+@itemize
+@item
+If the given buffer is too small for the host name, some implementations
+fail with @code{EINVAL}, instead of returning a truncated host name.
+@end itemize