rc_own_hostname(3)

💖 rc_own_hostname — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is a page from the Radius client library man pages, and the star of the show is rc_own_hostname(3). yes babe, that's a manual section 3 situation, library functions only, we're being fancy today ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

rc_own_hostname — literally the function that tells you what this machine calls itself 🫶

(it's giving "who am i" but for your computer, and the answer is not existential, it's just a hostname)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bestie, here's the whole vibe, character for character:

#include <radcli/radcli.h>

int rc_own_hostname(
    char    *hostname,
    int      len
);

no cap, that's it. two arguments. we love a low-maintenance icon 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Get the hostname of this machine.

that's the whole thing. it goes and finds out what your machine is called, and that's the moment. main character energy, truly. 🌈

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🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• hostname — will hold the name of the host. this is your lil container, your little velvet pouch, and the name goes in here. 💖
• len — the size of hostname. important bestie, because it needs to know how much room it's working with, we do not do buffer chaos in this house. 🚫

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🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

• -1 on failure 😭
• 0 on success 👑

that's the whole scale. zero is the win. negative one is the "aw". periodt.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole friend group, the entire group chat, every single one of them:

radcli.h(3), rc_aaa(3), rc_aaa_ctx(3), rc_aaa_ctx_free(3), rc_aaa_ctx_get_secret(3), rc_aaa_ctx_get_vector(3), rc_aaa_ctx_server(3), rc_acct(3), rc_acct_proxy(3), rc_add_config(3), rc_apply_config(3), rc_auth(3), rc_auth_proxy(3), rc_avpair_add(3), rc_avpair_assign(3), rc_avpair_copy(3), rc_avpair_free(3), rc_avpair_gen(3), rc_avpair_get(3), rc_avpair_get_attr(3), rc_avpair_get_in6(3), rc_avpair_get_raw(3), rc_avpair_get_uint32(3), rc_avpair_insert(3), rc_avpair_log(3), rc_avpair_new(3), rc_avpair_next(3), rc_avpair_parse(3), rc_avpair_remove(3), rc_avpair_tostr(3), rc_buildreq(3), rc_check(3), rc_check_tls(3), rc_conf_int(3), rc_conf_srv(3), rc_conf_str(3), rc_config_free(3), rc_config_init(3), rc_destroy(3), rc_dict_addattr(3), rc_dict_addval(3), rc_dict_addvend(3), rc_dict_findattr(3), rc_dict_findval(3), rc_dict_findvend(3), rc_dict_free(3), rc_dict_getattr(3), rc_dict_getval(3), rc_dict_getvend(3), rc_find_server_addr(3), rc_get_socket_type(3), rc_get_srcaddr(3), rc_getport(3), rc_mksid(3), rc_new(3), rc_openlog(3), rc_own_hostname(3), rc_read_config(3), rc_read_dictionary(3), rc_read_dictionary_from_buffer(3), rc_send_server(3), rc_setdebug(3), rc_test_config(3), rc_tls_fd(3)

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ngl if you got here by accident and you're looking for the shell command version, this is not that, this is the library call, but honestly? slay either way 🧚

and that's the page!! this little beauty came from radcli, dated 2023-01-29, and it's genuinely one of the chillest functions in the whole library. go get that hostname bestie, ily, mwah 💜🌸🦋✨