libbb/safe_gethostname.c

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/*
 * Safe gethostname implementation for busybox
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2008 Tito Ragusa <farmatito@tiscali.it>
 *
 * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
 */

/*
 * 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 *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) ? "?" : uts.nodename, sizeof(uts.nodename));
}