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+/* xgethostname.c -- return current hostname with unlimited length
+
+   Copyright (C) 1992, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software
+   Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+   any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+   Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
+
+/* written by Jim Meyering */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+# include <config.h>
+#endif
+
+/* Specification.  */
+#include "xgethostname.h"
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#if HAVE_UNISTD_H
+# include <unistd.h>
+#endif
+
+#include "xalloc.h"
+
+#ifndef ENAMETOOLONG
+# define ENAMETOOLONG 0
+#endif
+
+#ifndef INITIAL_HOSTNAME_LENGTH
+# define INITIAL_HOSTNAME_LENGTH 34
+#endif
+
+/* Return the current hostname in malloc'd storage.
+   If malloc fails, exit.
+   Upon any other failure, return NULL and set errno.  */
+char *
+xgethostname (void)
+{
+  char *hostname = NULL;
+  size_t size = INITIAL_HOSTNAME_LENGTH;
+
+  while (1)
+    {
+      /* Use SIZE_1 here rather than SIZE to work around the bug in
+	 SunOS 5.5's gethostname whereby it NUL-terminates HOSTNAME
+	 even when the name is as long as the supplied buffer.  */
+      size_t size_1;
+
+      hostname = x2realloc (hostname, &size);
+      size_1 = size - 1;
+      hostname[size_1 - 1] = '\0';
+      errno = 0;
+
+      if (gethostname (hostname, size_1) == 0)
+	{
+	  if (! hostname[size_1 - 1])
+	    break;
+	}
+      else if (errno != 0 && errno != ENAMETOOLONG && errno != EINVAL
+	       /* OSX/Darwin does this when the buffer is not large enough */
+	       && errno != ENOMEM)
+	{
+	  int saved_errno = errno;
+	  free (hostname);
+	  errno = saved_errno;
+	  return NULL;
+	}
+    }
+
+  return hostname;
+}