Re: [PATCH] xgethostname: handle long hostnames

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On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 03:23:35PM -0400, David Turner wrote:

> If the full hostname doesn't fit in the buffer supplied to
> gethostname, POSIX does not specify whether the buffer will be
> null-terminated

Wow, TIL. What an utterly terrible and error-prone interface (I always
just assumed we'd get ENAMETOOLONG, which is what glibc does).

> so to be safe, we should do it ourselves.  Introduce
> new function, xgethostname, which ensures that there is always a \0
> at the end of the buffer.

Your patch looks good to me.

-Peff



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