Getting the hostname from the system 1

[josebravo]

Hallo my friends, I'm programming in c++ under an UNIX machine and I would like to get the name of the machine and put it in a variable of type char*. How can I do it?

I know I can do: system("hostname&quot but the return value is an integer and I would want to get the name.

Thanks in advance, I will be very grateful.

Jose.

 

[brudnakm]

char name[ 32 ] ;

gethostname( name, 32 ) ;