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Re: base-files: LOGNAME


On Sunday, May 30, 2010, Yaakov wrote:
> POSIX.1[1] describes a LOGNAME environment variable which represents the user's login name. ÂAdding 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?

Andy

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