• NAME
  
  getdomainname, setdomainname - get/set domain name
• SYNOPSIS
  
  #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)
• DESCRIPTION
  
  These functions are used to access or to change the domain name of the current processor.
  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
  
  On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
• ERRORS
  
  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.

• CONFORMING TO
  
  POSIX does not specify these calls.
• NOTES
  
  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) .
• SEE ALSO
  
  gethostname(2) , sethostname(2) , uname(2)
• COLOPHON
  
  This page is part of release 3.19 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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