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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index e7e1ac5..aa57217 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -141,7 +141,9 @@ Availability: \UNIX. \begin{funcdesc}{getlogin}{} 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. +environment variable \envvar{LOGNAME} to find out who the user is, +or \code{pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]} to get the login name +of the currently effective user ID. Availability: \UNIX. \end{funcdesc} |