curl/lib/curl_gethostname.c

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#include "setup.h"

#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
#  include <unistd.h>
#endif

#include "curl_gethostname.h"

/*
 * Curl_gethostname() is a wrapper around gethostname() which allows
 * overriding the host name that the function would normally return.
 * This capability is used by the test suite to verify exact matching
 * of NTLM authentication, which exercises libcurl's MD4 and DES code.
 *
 * For libcurl debug enabled builds host name overriding takes place
 * when environment variable CURL_GETHOSTNAME is set, using the value
 * held by the variable to override returned host name.
 *
 * For libcurl shared library release builds the test suite preloads
 * another shared library named libhostname using the LD_PRELOAD
 * mechanism which intercepts, and might override, the gethostname()
 * function call. In this case a given platform must support the
 * LD_PRELOAD mechanism and additionally have environment variable
 * CURL_GETHOSTNAME set in order to override the returned host name.
 *
 * For libcurl static library release builds no overriding takes place.
 */

int Curl_gethostname(char *name, GETHOSTNAME_TYPE_ARG2 namelen) {

#ifndef HAVE_GETHOSTNAME

  /* Allow compilation and return failure when unavailable */
  (void) name;
  (void) namelen;
  return -1;

#else

#ifdef DEBUGBUILD

  /* Override host name when environment variable CURL_GETHOSTNAME is set */
  const char *force_hostname = getenv("CURL_GETHOSTNAME");
  if(force_hostname) {
    strncpy(name, force_hostname, namelen);
    name[namelen-1] = '\0';
    return 0;
  }

#endif /* DEBUGBUILD */

  /* The call to system's gethostname() might get intercepted by the
     libhostname library when libcurl is built as a non-debug shared
     library when running the test suite. */
  return gethostname(name, namelen);

#endif

}