On Sunday, May 30, 2010, Yaakov wrote: > POSIX.1[1] describes a LOGNAME environment variable which represents the > user's login name. Adding 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
