Re: history (was Re: base-files: LOGNAME)

2010-06-28 Thread Eric Backus
Cyrille Lefevre writes: > sunos, login(1) both set USER and LOGNAME using pwd->pw_name ... > solaris, login(1) only set LOGNAME ... > sys5r4, same as solaris, but ... > irix, login(1) and logname(1) does as sunos ... > osf1, login(1) does as sunos, logname(1) as solaris At least historically, HP

history (was Re: base-files: LOGNAME)

2010-06-25 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 31/05/2010 13:22, Andy Koppe a écrit : Posix defines LOGNAME, but regarding USER it only says that it is "unwise to conflict with certain variables that are frequently exported by widely used command interpreters and applications". (http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html)