From 3fcf58b142e22adb754b312576570c904655f877 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Deepak Goel Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:13:38 -0800 Subject: This patch fixes the issue in which erlang fails to start if the hostname is 64 characters on a linux system. --- lib/erl_interface/src/connect/ei_connect.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib/erl_interface/src/connect') diff --git a/lib/erl_interface/src/connect/ei_connect.c b/lib/erl_interface/src/connect/ei_connect.c index c193fd804a..27b919c093 100644 --- a/lib/erl_interface/src/connect/ei_connect.c +++ b/lib/erl_interface/src/connect/ei_connect.c @@ -497,7 +497,8 @@ int ei_connect_init(ei_cnode* ec, const char* this_node_name, } #endif /* _REENTRANT */ - if (gethostname(thishostname, EI_MAXHOSTNAMELEN) == -1) { + /* gethostname requires len to be max(hostname) + 1 */ + if (gethostname(thishostname, EI_MAXHOSTNAMELEN+1) == -1) { #ifdef __WIN32__ EI_TRACE_ERR1("ei_connect_init","Failed to get host name: %d", WSAGetLastError()); @@ -613,7 +614,8 @@ int ei_connect_tmo(ei_cnode* ec, char *nodename, unsigned ms) hp = ei_gethostbyname_r(hostname,&host,buffer,1024,&ei_h_errno); if (hp == NULL) { char thishostname[EI_MAXHOSTNAMELEN+1]; - if (gethostname(thishostname,EI_MAXHOSTNAMELEN) < 0) { + /* gethostname requies len to be max(hostname) + 1*/ + if (gethostname(thishostname,EI_MAXHOSTNAMELEN+1) < 0) { EI_TRACE_ERR0("ei_connect_tmo", "Failed to get name of this host"); erl_errno = EHOSTUNREACH; @@ -636,7 +638,8 @@ int ei_connect_tmo(ei_cnode* ec, char *nodename, unsigned ms) #else /* __WIN32__ */ if ((hp = ei_gethostbyname(hostname)) == NULL) { char thishostname[EI_MAXHOSTNAMELEN+1]; - if (gethostname(thishostname,EI_MAXHOSTNAMELEN) < 0) { + /* gethostname requires len to be max(hostname) + 1 */ + if (gethostname(thishostname,EI_MAXHOSTNAMELEN+1) < 0) { EI_TRACE_ERR1("ei_connect_tmo", "Failed to get name of this host: %d", WSAGetLastError()); -- cgit v1.2.3