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+/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
+/*
+ * Mini logname implementation for busybox
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2000 Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>.
+ *
+ * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
+ */
+
+/* BB_AUDIT SUSv3 compliant */
+/* http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/logname.html */
+
+/* Mar 16, 2003 Manuel Novoa III (mjn3@codepoet.org)
+ *
+ * SUSv3 specifies the string used is that returned from getlogin().
+ * The previous implementation used getpwuid() for geteuid(), which
+ * is _not_ the same. Erik apparently made this change almost 3 years
+ * ago to avoid failing when no utmp was available. However, the
+ * correct course of action wrt SUSv3 for a failing getlogin() is
+ * a diagnostic message and an error return.
+ */
+
+#include "libbb.h"
+
+/* This is a NOFORK applet. Be very careful! */
+
+int logname_main(int argc, char **argv) MAIN_EXTERNALLY_VISIBLE;
+int logname_main(int argc, char **argv UNUSED_PARAM)
+{
+ char buf[128];
+
+ if (argc > 1) {
+ bb_show_usage();
+ }
+
+ /* Using _r function - avoid pulling in static buffer from libc */
+ if (getlogin_r(buf, sizeof(buf)) == 0) {
+ puts(buf);
+ return fflush(stdout);
+ }
+
+ bb_perror_msg_and_die("getlogin");
+}