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Update getdomainname(3) to reflect that it operates on

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domain names and not host names.

Pointed out by:  bde
Obtained from:  NetBSD
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Mike Pritchard 1996-12-01 00:10:28 +00:00
parent 9869c40e7e
commit c5fe2345a9
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.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\" $NetBSD: getdomainname.3,v 1.2 1995/02/27 04:12:27 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
@ -29,16 +31,15 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)getdomainname.2 6.7 (Berkeley) 3/10/91
.\" $Id: getdomainname.3,v 1.2 1996/02/11 22:33:32 mpp Exp $
.\" @(#)gethostname.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\"
.Dd March 10, 1991
.Dd May 6, 1994
.Dt GETDOMAINNAME 3
.Os BSD 4.2
.Sh NAME
.Nm getdomainname ,
.Nm setdomainname
.Nd get/set name of current host
.Nd get/set domain name of current host
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <unistd.h>
.Ft int
@ -47,7 +48,7 @@
.Fn setdomainname "const char *name" "int namelen"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Fn Getdomainname
returns the standard host name for the current processor, as
returns the standard domain name for the current processor, as
previously set by
.Fn setdomainname .
The parameter
@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ array. The returned name is null-terminated unless insufficient
space is provided.
.Pp
.Fn Setdomainname
sets the name of the host machine to be
sets the domain name of the host machine to be
.Fa name ,
which has length
.Fa namelen .
@ -80,11 +81,12 @@ or
parameter gave an
invalid address.
.It Bq Er EPERM
The caller tried to set the domainname and was not the super-user.
The caller tried to set the hostname and was not the super-user.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr gethostid 3 ,
.Xr sysctl 3
.Xr sysctl 3 ,
.Xr gethostname 3
.Sh BUGS
Host names are limited to
.Dv MAXHOSTNAMELEN
@ -93,6 +95,6 @@ Host names are limited to
characters, currently 256.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn getdomainname
.Nm
function call appeared in
.Bx 4.2 .