On May 30 10:02, 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?
Huh? The Cygwin DLL does not set $SHELL. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
