use HOST_NAME_MAX to size buffers for gethostname(2)

POSIX limits the length of host names to HOST_NAME_MAX.  Export the
fallback definition from daemon.c and use this constant to make all
buffers used with gethostname(2) big enough for any possible result
and a terminating NUL.

Inspired-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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René Scharfe
2017-04-18 17:57:42 -04:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent c3808ca698
commit da25bdb776
6 changed files with 14 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -878,6 +878,10 @@ static inline size_t xsize_t(off_t len)
__attribute__((format (printf, 3, 4)))
extern int xsnprintf(char *dst, size_t max, const char *fmt, ...);
#ifndef HOST_NAME_MAX
#define HOST_NAME_MAX 256
#endif
/* in ctype.c, for kwset users */
extern const unsigned char tolower_trans_tbl[256];