X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <50ac47e545b4562142466c5a3f9b9058.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20100531122208.GH16885@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <4C021FA8.4030403@users.sourceforge.net> <0e02511a11473cd99d0035122f0c6dc0.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> <4C02AA5A.4050704@users.sourceforge.net> <20100531122208.GH16885@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 16:18:26 +0100 Subject: Re: base-files: LOGNAME From: "John Morrison" To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Mon, May 31, 2010 1:22 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 30 13:11, Yaakov S wrote: >> On 2010-05-30 04:31, John Morrison wrote: >> >Could we do; >> > >> >LOGNAME=$USERNAME >> >export LOGNAME >> > >> >instead? >> >> I'm not sure those are always equivalent, but I'm no expert on POSIX. > > USERNAME is the Windows username. LOGNAME should be rather equivalent > to $USER. If that's true, then we can't do a simple LOGNAME=$USER... $ echo -e "USERNAME = $USERNAME\nUSER = $USER\nLOGNAME = `logname`" USERNAME = John USER = john LOGNAME = John Note the case... J. -- 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