On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:39:08PM +0800, Chris Down wrote:
> On 2013-10-18 17:32, lambda lambda wrote:
> > Hi guys and thank you for your hard work so far. I'm sending my first
> > patch here. As the subject says, i'm adding logname(1).
>
> More complex logname variants look at the terminal connected to stdin to work
> out the login name. This, however, sucks, just as much as writing a full
> program just to print out an environment variable.
I think the most portable/sensible means is to simply inspect the environment.
I also
had a look at musl's implementation of getlogin() and that is basically
getenv("LOGNAME").
If there is enough reason to include logname, such as existing scripts using it
etc.
then I would not mind adding this to sbase.
Thanks,
sin
