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-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/getlogin_r.c32
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/getlogin_r.c b/sysdeps/unix/getlogin_r.c
index cb0545e08a..04b99056b0 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/getlogin_r.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/getlogin_r.c
@@ -40,20 +40,20 @@ getlogin_r (name, name_len)
int result = 0;
struct utmp *ut, line, buffer;
- {
- int d = __open ("/dev/tty", 0);
- if (d < 0)
- return errno;
+ /* Get name of tty connected to fd 0. Return if not a tty or
+ if fd 0 isn't open. Note that a lot of documentation says that
+ getlogin() is based on the controlling terminal---what they
+ really mean is "the terminal connected to standard input". The
+ getlogin() implementation of DEC Unix, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX all
+ return NULL if fd 0 has been closed, so this is the compatible
+ thing to do. Note that ttyname(open("/dev/tty")) on those
+ systems returns /dev/tty, so that is not a possible solution for
+ getlogin(). */
- result = __ttyname_r (d, real_tty_path, sizeof (tty_pathname));
- (void) __close (d);
-
- if (result != 0)
- {
- __set_errno (result);
- return result;
- }
- }
+ result = __ttyname_r (0, real_tty_path, sizeof (tty_pathname));
+
+ if (result != 0)
+ return result;
real_tty_path += 5; /* Remove "/dev/". */
@@ -69,16 +69,16 @@ getlogin_r (name, name_len)
}
else
{
- size_t needed = strlen (ut->ut_line) + 1;
+ size_t needed = strlen (ut->ut_user) + 1;
- if (needed < name_len)
+ if (needed > name_len)
{
__set_errno (ERANGE);
result = ERANGE;
}
else
{
- memcpy (name, ut->ut_line, needed);
+ memcpy (name, ut->ut_user, needed);
result = 0;
}
}