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Re: [Nano-devel] hostname for locking is sometimes too long
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Mike Frysinger |
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Re: [Nano-devel] hostname for locking is sometimes too long |
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Wed, 4 Nov 2015 16:29:11 -0500 |
On 04 Nov 2015 21:53, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> On Ubuntu 15.10 we have a serious bug report:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nano/+bug/1509081
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> Apparently some hostnames are longer than 31 characters,
> and gethostname() returns -1 and ENAMETOOLONG.
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> I think that when this latter error is returned, then
> write_lockfile() should ignore the -1 return value,
> null-terminate myhostname, and continue. Right?
sounds fine. could also increase the 32 to 256.
-mike
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