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Re: base-files: LOGNAME


On May 31 11:56, Yaakov S wrote:
> On 2010-05-31 10:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >I don't know where the logname tool is getting the wrong case from.  But
> >that still allows to do an `export LOGNAME=$USER'
> 
> Per POSIX, logname(1) must output the exact value of getlogin(3).

Good hint.  Actually this was a Cygwin problem.  Basically the user name
is first set to what defined by Windows.  Later in the initialization it
gets set to the username defined in /etc/passwd.  But only if the name
is different in a case-insensitive manner.  If the Cygwin user name only
differs from the Windows username by case, the name didn't get changed.
I fixed that in CVS.


Corinna

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