reassign 69678 libc0.1 2.13-37 retitle 69678 getlogin() fails (sometimes) on kfreebsd thanks
For reference: Christoph tried to use dput-ng on kFreeBSD but it failed with: On 27.12.2012 04:16, Christoph Egger wrote: > [CRITICAL] 1356578085.464574: (<module>) unable to determine login name This output comes from os.getlogin() in Python. By talking to you, you confirmed that this command fails for you indeed. However, it works for me on both kFreeBSD and FreeBSD 8.2: [root@kfreebsd:/home/arno]# uname -a GNU/kFreeBSD kfreebsd 9.0-2-amd64 #0 Sat Sep 22 19:00:52 UTC 2012 x86_64 amd64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz GNU/kFreeBSD [root@kfreebsd:/home/arno]# python -c 'import os; print os.getlogin()' arno [root@fbsd-test /home/arno]# uname -a FreeBSD fbsd-test.fritz.box 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 [root@fbsd-test /home/arno]# python -c 'import os; print os.getlogin()' arno Digging further, we revealed that this program does not work either for Christoph: #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> int main() { char * login = getlogin(); if (login) printf("%s", login); else printf("getlogin(): %s", strerror(errno)); } while it does work for me. Christoph gets: ./a.out getlogin():Success% At this point, my knowledge ends. I know that getlogin(3) is not very reliable, but hopefully it might be a little better than that. At very least I lack the understanding why it works for me, but fails for Christoph. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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