util: Introduce qemu_get_host_name()

This function offers operating system agnostic way to fetch host
name. It is implemented for both POSIX-like and Windows systems.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/util/oslib-posix.c b/util/oslib-posix.c
index 72907d4..e60aea8 100644
--- a/util/oslib-posix.c
+++ b/util/oslib-posix.c
@@ -794,3 +794,38 @@ void sigaction_invoke(struct sigaction *action,
     }
     action->sa_sigaction(info->ssi_signo, &si, NULL);
 }
+
+#ifndef HOST_NAME_MAX
+# ifdef _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX
+#  define HOST_NAME_MAX _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX
+# else
+#  define HOST_NAME_MAX 255
+# endif
+#endif
+
+char *qemu_get_host_name(Error **errp)
+{
+    long len = -1;
+    g_autofree char *hostname = NULL;
+
+#ifdef _SC_HOST_NAME_MAX
+    len = sysconf(_SC_HOST_NAME_MAX);
+#endif /* _SC_HOST_NAME_MAX */
+
+    if (len < 0) {
+        len = HOST_NAME_MAX;
+    }
+
+    /* Unfortunately, gethostname() below does not guarantee a
+     * NULL terminated string. Therefore, allocate one byte more
+     * to be sure. */
+    hostname = g_new0(char, len + 1);
+
+    if (gethostname(hostname, len) < 0) {
+        error_setg_errno(errp, errno,
+                         "cannot get hostname");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    return g_steal_pointer(&hostname);
+}