I am curious about this:
$ logname --version | tail -n 1
Written by FIXME: unknown.
The author "FIXME: unknown" was introduced by Jim in the following
commit [1]:
commit 5b2aa1846bc8dc6d8ffce7d523cebc1ab45a17d7
Author: Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Mar 6 15:28:54 1999 +0000
Commit: Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Sat Mar 6 15:28:54 1999 +0000
Include long-options.h.
[long_options]: Remove the "help" and "version" entries.
Remove declarations of show_help and show_version.
(main): Use parse_long_options, including author name(s).
Remove the show_version and show_help blocks.
The earliest version of sh-utils I could find is sh-utils-1.12.tar.gz
from 1994 [2]:
$ tar -xf sh-utils-1.12.tar.gz
$ cd sh-utils-1.12
$ TZ=UTC0 stat --format=%y ChangeLog NEWS
1994-11-05 13:35:38.000000000 +0000
1994-11-05 13:26:00.000000000 +0000
The first ChangeLog entry to mention logname.c is the following:
Wed Jul 24 02:13:31 1991 David J. MacKenzie (djm at
wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu)
* stty.c (sane_mode): Always set control chars to sane values.
Set min and time if they're different from eof and eol.
* whoami.c: Print UID as unsigned.
* logname.c: Do "whoami" if getlogin fails.
* logname.c (main): fprintf was missing an arg.
After writing all of that, I found that the original shellutils-1.0
tarball, which I sadly cannot find remnants of, contained the logname
program based on the announcement [3].
If I understand correctly, the original fileutils, textutils, and
sh-utils, were all written by David MacKenzie [4]. And he continued to
work on them for some time before passing on maintence.
Is it safe to credit David with logname? It would be nice to get rid of
the ugly FIXME in the --version output, and give proper credit where it
is due.
But maybe there is some history I am missing.
Collin
[1] This commit predates Git, but I assume CVS repositories can be
converted to git and keep correct commit/author dates.
[2] https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/sh-utils/sh-utils-1.12.tar.gz
[3] https://groups.google.com/g/gnu.utils.bug/c/xpTRtuFpNQc/m/mRc_7JWZ0BYJ
[4] https://youtu.be/D7vfI-WSP8Q?si=zeVjlljqCUGqYZzt
