1 /* Copyright (C) 1995-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
6 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
7 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
12 Lesser General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
15 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
16 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
23 #include <not-cancel.h>
25 #define HOSTIDFILE "/etc/hostid"
29 sethostid (long int id
)
35 /* Test for appropriate rights to set host ID. */
36 if (__libc_enable_secure
)
42 /* Make sure the ID is not too large. Needed for bi-arch support. */
45 __set_errno (EOVERFLOW
);
49 /* Open file for writing. Everybody is allowed to read this file. */
50 fd
= open_not_cancel (HOSTIDFILE
, O_CREAT
|O_WRONLY
|O_TRUNC
, 0644);
54 written
= write_not_cancel (fd
, &id32
, sizeof (id32
));
56 close_not_cancel_no_status (fd
);
58 return written
!= sizeof (id32
) ? -1 : 0;
63 # include <sys/param.h>
64 # include <resolv/netdb.h>
65 # include <netinet/in.h>
70 char hostname
[MAXHOSTNAMELEN
+ 1];
73 struct hostent hostbuf
, *hp
;
79 /* First try to get the ID from a former invocation of sethostid. */
80 fd
= open_not_cancel (HOSTIDFILE
, O_RDONLY
|O_LARGEFILE
, 0);
83 ssize_t n
= read_not_cancel (fd
, &id
, sizeof (id
));
85 close_not_cancel_no_status (fd
);
91 /* Getting from the file was not successful. An intelligent guess for
92 a unique number of a host is its IP address. Return this. */
93 if (__gethostname (hostname
, MAXHOSTNAMELEN
) < 0 || hostname
[0] == '\0')
94 /* This also fails. Return and arbitrary value. */
98 buffer
= __alloca (buflen
);
100 /* To get the IP address we need to know the host name. */
101 while (__gethostbyname_r (hostname
, &hostbuf
, buffer
, buflen
, &hp
, &herr
)
104 if (herr
!= NETDB_INTERNAL
|| errno
!= ERANGE
)
107 /* Enlarge buffer. */
108 buffer
= extend_alloca (buffer
, buflen
, 2 * buflen
);
111 memcpy (&in
, hp
->h_addr
,
112 (int) sizeof (in
) < hp
->h_length
? (int) sizeof (in
) : hp
->h_length
);
114 /* For the return value to be not exactly the IP address we do some
116 return (int32_t) (in
.s_addr
<< 16 | in
.s_addr
>> 16);