/* A slightly more convenient wrapper for gethostname Copyright (C) 1996 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. */ #include #include #include #include /* 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. */ char * localhost () { static char *buf = 0; static size_t buf_len = 0; if (! buf) { do { errno = 0; if (buf) { char *new; buf_len += buf_len; new = realloc (buf, buf_len); if (! new) { free (buf); buf = 0; errno = ENOMEM; return 0; } else buf = new; } else { buf_len = 128; /* Initial guess */ buf = malloc (buf_len); if (! buf) { errno = ENOMEM; return 0; } } } while ((gethostname(buf, buf_len) == 0 && !memchr (buf, '\0', buf_len)) || errno == ENAMETOOLONG); if (errno) /* gethostname failed, abort. */ { free (buf); buf = 0; } } return buf; }