The
uname();
function stores NUL-terminated strings of information identifying
the current system into the structure referenced by
name.
The
utsname
structure is defined in the
‹sys/utsname.h›
header file, and contains the following members:
sysname
Name of the operating system implementation.
nodename
Network name of this machine.
release
Release level of the operating system.
version
Version level of the operating system.
machine
Machine hardware platform.
RETURN VALUES
If
uname();
is successful, 0 is returned; otherwise, \-1 is returned and
errno
is set appropriately.
ERRORS
The
uname();
function may fail and set
errno
for any of the errors specified for the library function
sysctl(3).