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/* A slightly more convenient wrapper for gethostname

   Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   Written by Miles Bader <miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

   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., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.  */

#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include <config.h>
#endif

#include <unistd.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>

#include "hostname.h"
/* Return the name of the localhost.  This is just a wrapper for gethostname,
   which takes care of allocating a big enough buffer, and caches the result
   after the first call (so the result should be copied before modification).
   If something goes wrong, 0 is returned, and errno set.  */
char *
localhost (void)
{
  static char *buf = 0;
  static size_t buf_len = 0;
  int myerror = 0;
  if (! buf)
    {
      do {
       errno = 0;

       if (buf) {
         buf_len += buf_len;
         buf = realloc (buf, buf_len);
       } else {
         buf_len = 128;        /* Initial guess */
         buf = malloc (buf_len);
       }

       if (! buf)
         {
           errno = ENOMEM;
           return 0;
         }
      } while (((myerror = gethostname(buf, buf_len)) == 0 && !memchr (buf, '\0', buf_len))
              || errno == ENAMETOOLONG);

      if (myerror)
       /* gethostname failed, abort.  */
       {
         free (buf);
         buf = 0;
       }
    }

  return buf;
}