X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 10:18:25 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: base-files: LOGNAME Message-ID: <20100531081825.GF16885@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4C021FA8.4030403@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On May 30 10:02, Andy Koppe wrote: > On Sunday, May 30, 2010, Yaakov wrote: > > POSIX.1[1] describes a LOGNAME environment variable which represents the user's login name.  Adding the following lines to /etc/profile should do the trick: > > > > LOGNAME="`logname`" > > export LOGNAME > > > > Where logname(1) is a program supplied by coreutils whose presence is required 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? Huh? The Cygwin DLL does not set $SHELL. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple