Re: base-files: LOGNAME

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On May 31 17:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 31 16:18, John Morrison wrote:
> > On Mon, May 31, 2010 1:22 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On May 30 13:11, Yaakov S wrote:
> > >> On 2010-05-30 04:31, John Morrison wrote:
> > >> >Could we do;
> > >> >
> > >> >LOGNAME=$USERNAME
> > >> >export LOGNAME
> > >> >
> > >> >instead?
> > >>
> > >> I'm not sure those are always equivalent, but I'm no expert on POSIX.
> > >
> > > USERNAME is the Windows username.  LOGNAME should be rather equivalent
> > > to $USER.
> > 
> > If that's true, then we can't do a simple LOGNAME=$USER...
> > 
> > $ echo -e "USERNAME = $USERNAME\nUSER     = $USER\nLOGNAME  = `logname`"
> > USERNAME = John
> > USER     = john
> > LOGNAME  = John
> > 
> > Note the case...
> 
> I don't know where the logname tool is getting the wrong case from.  But
> that still allows to do an `export LOGNAME=$USER'

Btw, tcsh sets LOGNAME to the same value as USER on shell startup,
unless the variables already exist.


Corinna

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