HOSTNAME: environment variable or not?

Fri Feb 18 20:30:25 UTC 2005

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Francois Ouellette wrote:

>>> I'm confused.    Can someone enlighten me as to this bash nuance.
>>
>> hostname is a user command, not a shell variable. cat
>> /proc/sys/kernel/hostname should yield the same result.
>>
>> Peter
>> --
>
> Why not use:
> uname -n
> instead?

because both use the uname(2) syscall interface and it makes no 
difference which you use (uname -n is probably more portable) ?

Peter
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