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Merge branch 'wip/lantw/dont-limit-host-name-to-99-bytes' into 'master'

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gutils: Don't limit the length of the host name to 99

See merge request GNOME/glib!944
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Philip Withnall 2019-06-24 16:18:59 +00:00
commit aef72f4356
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@ -1003,8 +1003,37 @@ g_get_host_name (void)
gchar *utmp;
#ifndef G_OS_WIN32
gchar *tmp = g_malloc (sizeof (gchar) * 100);
failed = (gethostname (tmp, sizeof (gchar) * 100) == -1);
glong max;
gsize size;
/* The number 256 * 256 is taken from the value of _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX,
* which is 255. Since we use _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX + 1 (= 256) in the
* fallback case, we pick 256 * 256 as the size of the larger buffer here.
* It should be large enough. It doesn't looks reasonable to name a host
* with a string that is longer than 64 KiB.
*/
const gsize size_large = (gsize) 256 * 256;
gchar *tmp;
max = sysconf (_SC_HOST_NAME_MAX);
if (max > 0 && max <= G_MAXSIZE - 1)
size = (gsize) max + 1;
else
#ifdef HOST_NAME_MAX
size = HOST_NAME_MAX + 1;
#else
size = _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX + 1;
#endif
tmp = g_malloc (size);
failed = (gethostname (tmp, size) == -1);
if (failed && size < size_large)
{
/* Try again with a larger buffer if 'size' may be too small. */
g_free (tmp);
tmp = g_malloc (size_large);
failed = (gethostname (tmp, size_large) == -1);
}
if (failed)
g_clear_pointer (&tmp, g_free);
utmp = tmp;