/* A slightly more convenient wrapper for gethostname Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Miles Bader 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., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #include #endif #include #ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H #include #endif #if defined(STDC_HEADERS) || defined(HAVE_STDLIB_H) #include #endif #include #include #include #include #include #include #if __STDC__ # define VOID void #else # define VOID char #endif extern VOID *xrealloc __P((VOID *p, size_t n)); /* Return the name of the localhost. This is just a wrapper for gethostname, which takes care of allocating a big enough buffer, and caches the result after the first call (so the result should be copied before modification). If something goes wrong, 0 is returned, and errno set. */ /* We know longer use static buffers, is to dangerous and cause subtile bugs. */ char * localhost (int no_dns) { char *buf = NULL; size_t buf_len = 0; int status = 0; do { char *tmp; errno = 0; buf_len += 256; /* Initial guess */ tmp = xrealloc (buf, buf_len); if (tmp == NULL) { errno = ENOMEM; free (buf); return 0; } else buf = tmp; } while (((status = gethostname(buf, buf_len)) == 0 && !memchr (buf, '\0', buf_len)) #ifdef ENAMETOOLONG || errno == ENAMETOOLONG #endif ); if (status != 0 && errno != 0) /* gethostname failed, abort. */ { free (buf); buf = 0; } /* Determine FQDN */ if (!no_dns) { struct hostent *hp = gethostbyname(buf); if (hp) { struct in_addr addr; addr.s_addr = *(unsigned int*) hp->h_addr; hp = gethostbyaddr((char *) &addr, sizeof(addr), AF_INET); if (hp) { free(buf); buf = strdup(hp->h_name); } } } return buf; }