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. -- 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
