/* xgethostname.c -- return current hostname with unlimited length Copyright (C) 1992, 1996 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 3, 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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /* written by Jim Meyering */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H # include #endif #include #include #ifndef errno extern int errno; #endif #include "error.h" #include "xalloc.h" #ifndef EXIT_FAILURE # define EXIT_FAILURE 1 #endif int gethostname (); #ifndef INITIAL_HOSTNAME_LENGTH # define INITIAL_HOSTNAME_LENGTH 34 #endif char * xgethostname () { char *hostname; size_t size; int err; size = INITIAL_HOSTNAME_LENGTH; hostname = XMALLOC (char, size); while (1) { /* Use size - 2 here rather than size - 1 to work around the bug in SunOS5.5's gethostname whereby it NUL-terminates HOSTNAME even when the name is longer than the supplied buffer. */ int k = size - 2; errno = 0; hostname[k] = '\0'; err = gethostname (hostname, size); if (err == 0 && hostname[k] == '\0') break; #ifdef ENAMETOOLONG else if (err != 0 && errno != ENAMETOOLONG && errno != 0) error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "gethostname"); #endif size *= 2; hostname = XREALLOC (hostname, char, size); } return hostname; }