Code Review 7024560: InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName() returns localhost for hostnames of length HOST_NAME_MAX
Alan Bateman
Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Mar 9 09:16:02 PST 2011
Chris Hegarty wrote:
> :
> I tested on a few different Linux machines and instrumented the error
> handling code, it is definitely failing with ENAMETOOLONG.
Okay, must be a glibc thing. The changes you have look okay to me but
would be nice to ensure that the hostname is null-terminated (for
platforms that don't fail with ENAMETOOLONG).
-Alan.
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