freebsd-nq/lib/libutil/trimdomain.3
Brian Somers 0c059599f6 Tidy up trimdomain() and document it.
Don't truncate one byte short of the passed length.
1999-04-07 14:03:31 +00:00

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.Dd April 7, 1999
.Os
.Dt TRIMDOMAIN 3
.Sh NAME
.Nm trimdomain
.Nd "trim the current domain name from a host name"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <libutil.h>
.Ft void
.Fn trimdomain "char *fullhost" "int hostsize"
.Pp
Link with
.Va -lutil
on the
.Xr cc 1
command line.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The function
.Fn trimdomain
removes the current domain name from the passed
.Ar fullhost
name by writing a
.Dv NUL
character over the first period of the passed name. The current domain
name is determined by calling
.Xr gethostname 3
and removing everything up to the first period. The name is determined
the first time this function is called and is cached for future use.
.Pp
.Fn trimdomain
will only trim the domain name if the passed
.Ar fullname
ends with the current domain name and if the length of the resulting host
name does not exceed
.Ar hostsize .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Fn trimdomain
does not return a value.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr gethostname 3