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GETDOMAINNAME(2)                                                        Linux Programmer's Manual                                                       GETDOMAINNAME(2)

NAME
       getdomainname, setdomainname - get/set NIS 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():
           Since glibc 2.21:
               _DEFAULT_SOURCE
           In glibc 2.19 and 2.20:
               _DEFAULT_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500)
           Up to and including glibc 2.19:
               _BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500)

DESCRIPTION
       These  functions are used to access or to change the NIS domain name of the host system.  More precisely, they operate on the NIS domain name associated with the
       calling process's UTS namespace.

       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 re‐
       quires 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 to indicate the error.

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 did not have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability in the user namespace associated with its UTS namespace (see namespaces(7)).

       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  re‐
       turns a copy of the domainname field returned from a call to uname(2).

SEE ALSO
       gethostname(2), sethostname(2), uname(2), uts_namespaces(7)

Linux                                                                          2021-03-22                                                               GETDOMAINNAME(2)