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Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 10:02:19 +0100
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Subject: Re: base-files: LOGNAME
From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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On Sunday, May 30, 2010, Yaakov wrote:
> POSIX.1[1] describes a LOGNAME environment variable which represents the =
user's login name. =C2=A0Adding the following lines to /etc/profile should =
do the trick:
>
> LOGNAME=3D"`logname`"
> export LOGNAME
>
> Where logname(1) is a program supplied by coreutils whose presence is req=
uired by POSIX.1[2].

That would mean a costly fork() during shell startup. Could this be
set in the DLL instead, as happens with the SHELL variable?

Andy

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