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-rw-r--r--nss/test-netdb.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/nss/test-netdb.c b/nss/test-netdb.c
index f52724039d..8ae6d12fc0 100644
--- a/nss/test-netdb.c
+++ b/nss/test-netdb.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 1998,99,2000,01 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
Contributed by Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>, 1998.
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>
#include "nss.h"
/*
@@ -138,8 +139,8 @@ static void
test_hosts (void)
{
struct hostent *hptr1, *hptr2;
- char name[MAXHOSTNAMELEN];
- size_t namelen = sizeof(name);
+ char *name = NULL;
+ size_t namelen = 0;
struct in_addr ip;
hptr1 = gethostbyname ("localhost");
@@ -176,6 +177,11 @@ test_hosts (void)
hptr1 = gethostbyname2 ("localhost", AF_INET);
output_hostent ("gethostbyname2 (\"localhost\", AF_INET)", hptr1);
+ while (gethostname (name, namelen) < 0 && errno == ENAMETOOLONG)
+ {
+ namelen += 2; /* tiny increments to test a lot */
+ name = realloc (name, namelen);
+ }
if (gethostname (name, namelen) == 0)
{
printf ("Hostname: %s\n", name);