/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */ /* * Safe gethostname implementation for busybox * * Copyright (C) 2008 Tito Ragusa <farmatito@tiscali.it> * * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this source tree. */ /* * SUSv2 guarantees that "Host names are limited to 255 bytes" * POSIX.1-2001 guarantees that "Host names (not including the terminating * null byte) are limited to HOST_NAME_MAX bytes" (64 bytes on my box). * * RFC1123 says: * * The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952 * [DNS:4]. One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the * restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a * letter or a digit. Host software MUST support this more liberal * syntax. * * Host software MUST handle host names of up to 63 characters and * SHOULD handle host names of up to 255 characters. */ #include "libbb.h" #include <sys/utsname.h> /* * On success return the current malloced and NUL terminated hostname. * On error return malloced and NUL terminated string "?". * This is an illegal first character for a hostname. * The returned malloced string must be freed by the caller. */ char* FAST_FUNC safe_gethostname(void) { struct utsname uts; /* The length of the arrays in a struct utsname is unspecified; * the fields are terminated by a null byte. * Note that there is no standard that says that the hostname * set by sethostname(2) is the same string as the nodename field of the * struct returned by uname (indeed, some systems allow a 256-byte host- * name and an 8-byte nodename), but this is true on Linux. The same holds * for setdomainname(2) and the domainname field. */ /* Uname can fail only if you pass a bad pointer to it. */ uname(&uts); return xstrndup(!uts.nodename[0] ? "?" : uts.nodename, sizeof(uts.nodename)); }