use HOST_NAME_MAX to size buffers for gethostname(2)

POSIX limits the length of host names to HOST_NAME_MAX.  Export the
fallback definition from daemon.c and use this constant to make all
buffers used with gethostname(2) big enough for any possible result
and a terminating NUL.

Inspired-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index d17b5bd341..8ec0f25987 100644
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static int canonical_name(const char *host, struct strbuf *out)
 
 static void add_domainname(struct strbuf *out, int *is_bogus)
 {
-	char buf[1024];
+	char buf[HOST_NAME_MAX + 1];
 
 	if (gethostname(buf, sizeof(buf))) {
 		warning_errno("cannot get host name");