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Diffstat (limited to 'win/tclWinSock.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | win/tclWinSock.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/win/tclWinSock.c b/win/tclWinSock.c index 18afb01..63f166d 100644 --- a/win/tclWinSock.c +++ b/win/tclWinSock.c @@ -2431,22 +2431,18 @@ InitializeHostName( Tcl_DStringInit(&ds); if (TclpHasSockets(NULL) == TCL_OK) { /* - * Buffer length of 255 copied slavishly from previous version of - * this routine. Presumably there's a more "correct" macro value - * for a properly sized buffer for a gethostname() call. - * Maintainers are welcome to supply it. + * The buffer size of 256 is recommended by the MSDN page that + * documents gethostname() as being always adequate. */ Tcl_DString inDs; Tcl_DStringInit(&inDs); - Tcl_DStringSetLength(&inDs, 255); + Tcl_DStringSetLength(&inDs, 256); if (gethostname(Tcl_DStringValue(&inDs), - Tcl_DStringLength(&inDs)) == 0) { - Tcl_DStringSetLength(&ds, 0); - } else { - Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString(NULL, - Tcl_DStringValue(&inDs), -1, &ds); + Tcl_DStringLength(&inDs)) == 0) { + Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString(NULL, Tcl_DStringValue(&inDs), -1, + &ds); } Tcl_DStringFree(&inDs); } |