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<h1 class="refname">posix_uname</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">posix_uname</span> — <span class="dc-title">Get system name</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">array</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>posix_uname</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
)</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Gets information about the system.
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<p class="para">
Posix requires that assumptions must not be made about the
format of the values, e.g. the assumption that a release may contain
three digits or anything else returned by this function.
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns a hash of strings with information about the
system. The indices of the hash are
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">
sysname - operating system name (e.g. Linux)
</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">
nodename - system name (e.g. valiant)
</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">
release - operating system release (e.g. 2.2.10)
</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">
version - operating system version (e.g. #4 Tue Jul 20
17:01:36 MEST 1999)
</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">
machine - system architecture (e.g. i586)
</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">
domainname - DNS domainname (e.g. example.com)
</span></li>
</ul>
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<p class="para">
domainname is a GNU extension and not part of POSIX.1, so this
field is only available on GNU systems or when using the GNU
libc.
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<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 Example use of <span class="function"><strong>posix_uname()</strong></span></strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$uname</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #0000BB">posix_uname</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">print_r</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$uname</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
something similar to:</p></div>
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<div class="cdata"><pre>
Array
(
[sysname] => Linux
[nodename] => funbox
[release] => 2.6.20-15-server
[version] => #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:41:34 UTC 2007
[machine] => i686
)
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