Man Pages

---

Back to Software Index  Manpage Top Level

Name

Synopsis

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)

Description

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).

Return Value

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.

Conforming to

Notes

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) .

See Also

Colophon

Table of Contents

• Name
• Synopsis
• Description
• Return Value
• Errors
• Conforming to
• Notes
• See Also
• Colophon