X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Eric Backus Subject: Re: history (was Re: base-files: LOGNAME) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <4C021FA8 DOT 4030403 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> <20100531081825 DOT GF16885 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4C254D71 DOT 7050205 AT laposte DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Cyrille Lefevre writes: > sunos, login(1) both set USER and LOGNAME using pwd->pw_name ... > solaris, login(1) only set LOGNAME ... > sys5r4, same as solaris, but ... > irix, login(1) and logname(1) does as sunos ... > osf1, login(1) does as sunos, logname(1) as solaris At least historically, HP-UX login(1) set LOGNAME but not USER. On the other hand, historically some su programs set USER but not LOGNAME. -- Eric Backus -- 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