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Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 10:31:59 +0100
Subject: Re: base-files: LOGNAME
From: "John Morrison" <john AT morrison DOT mine DOT nu>
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On Sun, May 30, 2010 10:02 am, 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?

Could we do;

LOGNAME=$USERNAME
export LOGNAME

instead?

J.


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