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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libos.tex | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index 4220d6d..7a63890 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -139,8 +139,9 @@ Availability: \UNIX. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{getlogin}{} -Return the actual login name for the current process, even if there -are multiple login names which map to the same user id. +Return the name of the user logged in on the controlling terminal of +the process. For most purposes, it is more useful to use the +environment variable \envvar{LOGNAME} to find out who the user is. Availability: \UNIX. \end{funcdesc} |