On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 06:24:45AM +0100, Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils Bug
Reports wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Thus, on Linux systems, a correct implementation of getlogin() can not
> > distinguish different users with the same uid (with reasonable effort).
> > This applies to both glibc and the new code in gnulib.
>
> Let me document this limitation.
>
> -This function returns the value of the @env{LOGNAME} environment variable:
> +This function returns the value of the @env{LOGNAME} environment variable
> +and this therefore arbitrarily fakeable:
s/this/thus/ ?
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
Virtualization: qemu.org | libguestfs.org
