From:	"Piotr Eljasiak" <eljasiak AT NO-SPAM DOT zt DOT gdansk DOT tpsa DOT pl>
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Subject:	Re: User login name ?
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Date:	Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:22:48 GMT
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> > char *
> > getlogin(void)
> > {
> >   char *p;
> >
> >   p = getenv("USER");
> >   if (!p)
> >     p = getenv("LOGNAME");
> >   if (!p)
> >     p = getenv("USERNAME");
> >   if (!p)
> >     p = default_login;
> >   return p;
> > }
>
> DJGPP's getlogin() already does two of these three; if you want the
> third, you could setenv("USERNAME", getenv("USER")) or something.

Of course it does, for these are slightly modified DJGPP sources for
getlogin() ;o). I can either:

1. use
#ifdef __DJGPP__
setenv("USERNAME",getenv("USER"));
#endif

or

2. have the library modified to read variable USERNAME

IMHO the latter is just more portable and elegant. So this is my suggestion
to add reading USERNAME to getlogin() as the last (third) alternative.

Thanks,
Piotr Eljasiak

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