On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> I am using the CVS that comes with the latest FreeBSD (--version
> says 1.11) plus the attached patch.
>
> Some users (3 out of 7) gets (once in a while) the first two
> characters of their username shopped out.
>
> The CVS_USER_NAME variable the patch sets is okay, but the username
> used in $Id:'s and such are borken. (See example below).
Grrh; the patch at http://www.cvshome.org/dev/patches/user is
broken. The attached works better. (Robert Spier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
fixed it up). I've also put it at
http://develooper.com/code/cvs/cvs.user.patch
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*** cvs.h~ Tue Oct 31 01:37:52 2000
--- cvs.h Fri Sep 14 07:30:25 2001
***************
*** 277,282 ****
--- 277,285 ----
#define CVSUMASK_ENV "CVSUMASK" /* Effective umask for repository */
/* #define CVSUMASK_DFLT Set by options.h */
+ /* Client user name for the server end of client/server mode */
+ #define CVS_USER_NAME_ENV "CVS_USER_NAME"
+
/*
* If the beginning of the Repository matches the following string, strip it
* so that the output to the logfile does not contain a full pathname.
*** main.c~ Tue Oct 31 01:37:53 2000
--- main.c Fri Sep 14 07:32:51 2001
***************
*** 776,781 ****
--- 776,796 ----
server_active = strcmp (command_name, "server") == 0;
#endif
+ /* Set up this environment variable so that the CVSROOT/*info
+ scripts on the server can know the client's identity.
+ This is done by setting the CVS_USER_NAME environment
+ for the environment of the client to match whatever name
+ was used by the client to get at CVS (as opposed to the
+ user ID that CVS happens to be running under). */
+
+ if (!getenv(CVS_USER_NAME_ENV)) {
+ char *user = getcaller();
+ char *env = xmalloc(strlen(user) + strlen(CVS_USER_NAME_ENV) +
+ 1 + 1);
+ (void) sprintf(env, "%s=%s", CVS_USER_NAME_ENV, user);
+ (void) putenv(env);
+ }
+
/* This is only used for writing into the history file. For
remote connections, it might be nice to have hostname
and/or remote path, on the other hand I'm not sure whether
