Re: Obtaining local host name
Re: Obtaining local host name
- Subject: Re: Obtaining local host name
- From: Josh Graessley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 14:02:27 -0700
On May 24, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Ryan McGann wrote:
On May 24, 2008, at 12:05 PM, email@hidden
wrote:
gethostname isn't going to work. You're looking for
SCDynamicStoreCopyLocalHostName.
Mark,
I'm curious, why won't gethostname work? The hostname command seems
to return the correct string, and according to the sources, it
simply calls gethostname. What's different about the SytemConfig call?
gethostname is a legacy API from the days where the host had a single
name. It's obsolete and exists only for compatibility. If you're using
this API in modern code, it's a sign you're probably doing something
wrong.
-josh
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