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Re: base-files: LOGNAME
On May 30 10:02, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 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?
Huh? The Cygwin DLL does not set $SHELL.
Corinna
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