X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4C021FA8.4030403@users.sourceforge.net> References: <4C021FA8 DOT 4030403 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 10:02:19 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: base-files: LOGNAME From: Andy Koppe To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- 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