/* xgethostname.c -- return current hostname with unlimited length Copyright (C) 1992, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ /* written by Jim Meyering */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H # include #endif /* Specification. */ #include "xgethostname.h" #include #include #if HAVE_UNISTD_H # include #endif #include "xalloc.h" #ifndef ENAMETOOLONG # define ENAMETOOLONG 0 #endif #ifndef INITIAL_HOSTNAME_LENGTH # define INITIAL_HOSTNAME_LENGTH 34 #endif /* Return the current hostname in malloc'd storage. If malloc fails, exit. Upon any other failure, return NULL and set errno. */ char * xgethostname (void) { char *hostname = NULL; size_t size = INITIAL_HOSTNAME_LENGTH; while (1) { /* Use SIZE_1 here rather than SIZE to work around the bug in SunOS 5.5's gethostname whereby it NUL-terminates HOSTNAME even when the name is as long as the supplied buffer. */ size_t size_1; hostname = x2realloc (hostname, &size); size_1 = size - 1; hostname[size_1 - 1] = '\0'; errno = 0; if (gethostname (hostname, size_1) == 0) { if (! hostname[size_1 - 1]) break; } else if (errno != 0 && errno != ENAMETOOLONG && errno != EINVAL /* OSX/Darwin does this when the buffer is not large enough */ && errno != ENOMEM) { int saved_errno = errno; free (hostname); errno = saved_errno; return NULL; } } return hostname; }