GETUSER(3) GETUSER(3)
NAME
getuser, sysname - get user or system name
SYNOPSIS
#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
char* getuser(void)
char* sysname(void)
DESCRIPTION
Getuser returns a pointer to static data which contains the
null-terminated name of the user who owns the current pro-
cess. Getuser calls getuid(2) and then reads /etc/passwd to
find the corresponding name.
Sysname returns a pointer to static data which contains the
name of the machine on which the current process is running.
Sysname looks first for an environment variable $sysname.
If there is no such variable, sysname calls gethostname(2)
and truncates the returned name at the first dot. If
gethostname fails, sysname returns the default name `gnot'.
Unlike getuser, sysname caches the string, deriving the host
name only once.
SOURCE
/src/lib9/getuser.c
/src/lib9/sysname.c