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Diffstat (limited to 'sysklogd')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysklogd/syslogd.c | 6 |
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)) { |