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-rw-r--r--sysklogd/syslogd.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sysklogd/syslogd.c b/sysklogd/syslogd.c
index 0d98351fe..c71350750 100644
--- a/sysklogd/syslogd.c
+++ b/sysklogd/syslogd.c
@@ -647,10 +647,10 @@ int syslogd_main(int argc, char **argv)
option_mask32 |= OPT_locallog;
/* Store away localhost's name before the fork */
- gethostname(G.localHostName, sizeof(G.localHostName));
/* "It is unspecified whether the truncated hostname
- * will be null-terminated". Idiots! */
- G.localHostName[sizeof(G.localHostName) - 1] = '\0';
+ * will be null-terminated". We give it (size - 1),
+ * thus last byte will be NUL no matter what. */
+ gethostname(G.localHostName, sizeof(G.localHostName) - 1);
*strchrnul(G.localHostName, '.') = '\0';
if (!(option_mask32 & OPT_nofork)) {