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.