Am 04.01.2021 um 23:33 schrieb Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin:
I interact with Cygwin via mintty launched as "Win+R mintty Enter".
...
After looking into docs I got that mintty should be launched with a parameter
"-".
Probably it was always that way.
Yes, but it might be appropriate to apply special handling for this case
and imply login mode if started via Win+R.
What do others think?
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Checking POSIX standard on what might be defined in login shell:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/envvar.html (1997)
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696899/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html (2004)
I noticed that USER is mentioned but LOGNAME is not only mentioned by
description is given:
The system shall initialize this variable at the time of login to be the
user's login name.
Cygwin's /etc/profile has:
# Set the user id
USER="$(/usr/bin/id -un)"
but there is nothing for LOGNAME... Shouldn't /etc/profile set LOGNAME too?
Looks reasonable.
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