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Load operating system name, version, and patch into the output strings&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bdls&lowbar;osutil&period;h&gt;`

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static
int
getOsInfo(
    xref:bsl/string.adoc[bsl::string]* osName,
    xref:bsl/string.adoc[bsl::string]* osVersion,
    xref:bsl/string.adoc[bsl::string]* osPatch);
----

== Description

Load the operating system name, version name and patch name into the specified `osName`, `osVersion` and `osPatch` respectively&period; Return 0 on success and a non&hyphen;zero value otherwise&period; The loaded values may represent an emulation provided for the current process (see &quot;manifest&hyphen;based behavior&quot; in Windows programming documentation for an example) and therefore are not suitable for determining supported features or the real environment&sol;version&period; If you need to determine the presence of certain features please consult the documentation of the operating systems you need to support&period;

== Return Value

0 on success, and a non&hyphen;zero value otherwise

== Parameters

[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Name| Description
| *osName*
| receives the operating system name
| *osVersion*
| receives the operating system version
| *osPatch*
| receives the operating system patch level
|===


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