Bug#682778: Patch for hostname too short

[goldt]

Hi,

please change wall.c. It cuts the hostname because it uses sizeof a
pointer  instead of the buffer size which is too short.

--- wall.c      2011-10-11 15:23:47.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/wall.c 2014-06-18 12:53:17.440999746 +0200
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
                        where = "somewhere";
                        warn(_("cannot get tty name"));
                }
-               gethostname(hostname, sizeof(hostname));
+               gethostname(hostname, sysconf(_SC_HOST_NAME_MAX));
                time(&now);
                lt = localtime(&now);


Regards,
Sven


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