Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 23:20:02 -0800 (PST) From: GNU GNATS <gnats> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: bin/1084: gethostname.pl returns trailing \0 character Message-ID: <199603170720.XAA27222@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199603170720.XAA27222@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1084
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: gethostname.pl returns trailing \0 character
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 16 23:20:01 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Giles Lean
>Organization:
Giles Lean Nemeton Pty Ltd
<giles@nemeton.com.au> phone: +61 3 480 2118
>Release: -current (since the introduction of gethostname.pl)
>Environment:
FreeBSD-2.1.0 with gethostname.pl brought in from -current.
>Description:
The gethostname.pl library is a good idea, but it doesn't
trim the trailing \0 character. The perl5 module Sys::Hostname
does trim the \0.
>How-To-Repeat:
perl -e "require \"gethostname.pl\"; print &gethostname'gethostname" | od -c
>Fix:
Apply the following diff:
*** gethostname.pl-old Sun Mar 17 17:21:54 1996
--- gethostname.pl Sun Mar 17 17:22:03 1996
***************
*** 31,37 ****
die "Cannot get hostname via sysctl(2), errno = $!\n";
($len) = unpack("L", $oldlen);
! return substr($oldval, 0, $len);
}
1;
--- 31,37 ----
die "Cannot get hostname via sysctl(2), errno = $!\n";
($len) = unpack("L", $oldlen);
! return substr($oldval, 0, $len - 1);
}
1;
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