GNU bug report logs - #76876
logname output is often wrong when linked with glibc

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Nicolas Boos <nicolas.boos <at> wanadoo.fr>

Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 23:08:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
Cc: Nicolas Boos <nicolas.boos <at> wanadoo.fr>, Rich Felker <dalias <at> libc.org>, bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, 76876 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76876: logname output is often wrong when linked with glibc
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 20:13:42 -0700

On 2025-03-09 11:49, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Nicolas Boos wrote:
>> This page says that the result of the logname command and the LOGNAME
>> variable must be the same:
>> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.3?topic=l-logname-command
> An AIX man page is not a specification for what we run on GNU systems.

Plus, that AIX man page is wrong even for AIX. Here's a /bin/sh 
transcript on AIX:

  $ export LOGNAME=ouch
  $ env | grep LOGNAME
  LOGNAME=ouch
  $ logname
  eggert
  $ uname -a
  AIX gcc119 3 7 00F9C1964C00

I.e., AIX agrees with GNU and conforms to POSIX.
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