notcurses/doc/man/man3/notcurses_util.3.md

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NAME

notcurses_util - portable utility functions

SYNOPSIS

#include <notcurses/notcurses.h>

char notcurses_accountname(void);*

char notcurses_hostname(void);*

char notcurses_osversion(void);*

DESCRIPTION

Notcurses provides some utility functions, usually to abstract away platform-dependent differences.

notcurses_accountname returns a heap-allocated copy of the account name under which the program is running. notcurses_hostname returns a heap-allocated copy of the local host name. notcurses_osversion returns a heap-allocated human-readable representation of the operating system and its version.

NOTES

RETURN VALUES

All functions return NULL on error.

SEE ALSO

hostname(1), notcurses(3)