On May 31 16:18, John Morrison wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 1:22 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On May 30 13:11, Yaakov S wrote: > >> On 2010-05-30 04:31, John Morrison wrote: > >> >Could we do; > >> > > >> >LOGNAME=$USERNAME > >> >export LOGNAME > >> > > >> >instead? > >> > >> I'm not sure those are always equivalent, but I'm no expert on POSIX. > > > > USERNAME is the Windows username. LOGNAME should be rather equivalent > > to $USER. > > If that's true, then we can't do a simple LOGNAME=$USER... > > $ echo -e "USERNAME = $USERNAME\nUSER = $USER\nLOGNAME = `logname`" > USERNAME = John > USER = john > LOGNAME = John > > Note the case...
I don't know where the logname tool is getting the wrong case from. But that still allows to do an `export LOGNAME=$USER' Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
