UNAME(3) | Library Functions Manual | UNAME(3) |
uname
— get system
identification
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
#include
<sys/utsname.h>
int
uname
(struct
utsname *name);
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:
The uname
() function returns the
value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and
the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
The uname
() function may fail and set
errno for any of the errors specified for the library
functions sysctl(3).
The uname
() function conforms to
IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 (“POSIX.1”).
The uname
() function first appeared in
4.4BSD.
January 4, 1994 | macOS 14.6 |