From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 22:18:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: GNU shell utilities
X-Git-Tag: SHELLUTILS-1_10
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=39bbd361c18f688f72799e280f60d1ba765f6791;p=thirdparty%2Fgnulib.git

GNU shell utilities
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diff --git a/lib/xgethostname.c b/lib/xgethostname.c
index 86408e775d..9973b45bed 100644
--- a/lib/xgethostname.c
+++ b/lib/xgethostname.c
@@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ xgethostname ()
   int err;
 
   size = INITIAL_HOSTNAME_LENGTH;
+  hostname = xmalloc (size);
   while (1)
     {
-      hostname = xmalloc (size);
       hostname[size - 1] = '\0';
       err = gethostname (hostname, size);
-      if (err || hostname[size - 1] == '\0')
+      if (err == 0 && hostname[size - 1] == '\0')
 	break;
       size *= 2;
       hostname = xrealloc (hostname, size);