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-rw-r--r--unix/tclUnixSock.c15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/unix/tclUnixSock.c b/unix/tclUnixSock.c
index 5d11a28..44825fc 100644
--- a/unix/tclUnixSock.c
+++ b/unix/tclUnixSock.c
@@ -239,9 +239,6 @@ InitializeHostName(
native = u.nodename;
}
}
- if (native == NULL) {
- native = tclEmptyStringRep;
- }
#else /* !NO_UNAME */
/*
* Uname doesn't exist; try gethostname instead.
@@ -270,9 +267,15 @@ InitializeHostName(
#endif /* NO_UNAME */
*encodingPtr = Tcl_GetEncoding(NULL, NULL);
- *lengthPtr = strlen(native);
- *valuePtr = ckalloc((*lengthPtr) + 1);
- memcpy(*valuePtr, native, (size_t)(*lengthPtr)+1);
+ if (native) {
+ *lengthPtr = strlen(native);
+ *valuePtr = ckalloc((*lengthPtr) + 1);
+ memcpy(*valuePtr, native, (size_t)(*lengthPtr)+1);
+ } else {
+ *lengthPtr = 0;
+ *valuePtr = ckalloc(1);
+ *valuePtr[0] = '\0';
+ }
}
/*