coreutils/lib/canon-host.c
2005-09-22 06:44:26 +00:00

91 lines
3.1 KiB
C

/* Host name canonicalization
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at
your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include <config.h>
#endif
#include "canon-host.h"
#include "getaddrinfo.h"
#include "strdup.h"
/* Store the last error for the single-threaded version of this function. */
static int last_cherror;
/* Single-threaded of wrapper for canon_host_r. After a NULL return, error
messages may be retrieved via ch_strerror(). */
char *
canon_host (const char *host)
{
return canon_host_r (host, &last_cherror);
}
/* Return a malloc'd string containing the canonical hostname associated with
HOST, or NULL if a canonical name cannot be determined. On NULL return,
if CHERROR is not NULL, set *CHERROR to an error code as returned by
getaddrinfo(). Use ch_strerror_r() or gai_strerror() to convert a *CHERROR
value to a string suitable for error messages.
WARNINGS
HOST must be a string representation of a resolvable name for this host.
Strings containing an IP address in dotted decimal notation will be
returned as-is, without further resolution.
The use of the word "canonical" in this context is unfortunate but
entrenched. The value returned by this function will be the end result
of the resolution of any CNAME chains in the DNS. There may only be one
such value for any given hostname, though the actual IP address
referenced by this value and the device using that IP address may each
actually have any number of such "canonical" hostnames. See the POSIX
getaddrinfo spec <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/getaddrinfo.html">,
RFC 1034 <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1034.html>, & RFC 2181
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2181.html> for more on what this confusing
term really refers to. */
char *
canon_host_r (char const *host, int *cherror)
{
char *retval = NULL;
static struct addrinfo hints;
struct addrinfo *res = NULL;
int status;
hints.ai_flags = AI_CANONNAME;
status = getaddrinfo (host, NULL, &hints, &res);
if (!status)
{
retval = strdup (res->ai_canonname);
if (!retval && cherror)
*cherror = EAI_MEMORY;
freeaddrinfo (res);
}
else if (cherror)
*cherror = status;
return retval;
}
/* Return a string describing the last error encountered by canon_host. */
const char *
ch_strerror (void)
{
return gai_strerror (last_cherror);
}