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Le 31/05/2010 13:22, Andy Koppe a =C3=A9crit :
<snip>
> Posix defines LOGNAME, but regarding USER it only says that it is
> "unwise to conflict with certain variables that are frequently
> exported by widely used command interpreters and applications".
> (http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html)

FYI only, in short :

historically, USER is the bsd variant of the sysv LOGNAME.

long...

sunos, login(1) both set USER and LOGNAME using pwd->pw_name
also, logname(1) uses cuserid(3) instead of getlogin(3)
cuserid(3) does getpwuid(geteuid()) || getlogin() || NULL
funny, logname(3) does getenv("LOGNAME") in libxpg !

solaris, login(1) only set LOGNAME
logname(1) does getlogin(3)

in both case, getlogin(3) does an utmp lookup using
a kind of ttyslot() * sizeof(struct utmp) || NULL

sys5r4, same as solaris, but
getlogin(3) does an utmp lookup using a kind
of a while getsid(0) !=3D utmp.ut_pid loop
cuserid(3) does a getlogin(3) || getpwuid(getuid()) || NULL

irix, login(1) and logname(1) does as sunos
getlogin(2) does an utmp lookup using a kind
of a while ttyname(0||1||2) =3D=3D utmp.ut_line
cuserid(3) does as sys5r4

osf1, login(1) does as sunos, logname(1) as solaris
getlogin(1) does a syscall _getlogin(2)
cuserid(3) does as getpwuid(getuid()) || NULL

Regards,

Cyrille Lefevre
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