Mitch Capper wrote: > For requests to get the actual username I don't know if it is better to: > 1) Try the official API GetUserName but it requires an additional windows > library if it is not already included (which most of the time it is not) > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/nf-winbase-getusernamea > 2) Rely on the environmental variable USERNAME which should contain the > current user but clearly is just an ENV var > 3) Return some constant value > > I would be inclined to do #2, it will be correct most of the time but not > have additional deps.
Gnulib's getlogin() and getlogin_r() functions use 1). We have stuffed the link dependency into a variable GETLOGIN_LIB. And the unit test for these functions use 2) and verify that the two results agree. > For the uid/gid if there is a specific constant we want to stick to for > windows I can try to make sure to standardize on that. The uid, gid is the hard part, that has no correspondence in the Windows API. Bruno
