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| author | dkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> | 2014-05-07 22:19:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | dkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> | 2014-05-07 22:19:30 (GMT) |
| commit | 7c1d853a93ed3c14acece6af7b054bed1a22b67b (patch) | |
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Corrected description of where tcl_platform(user) comes from on Unix.
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diff --git a/doc/tclvars.n b/doc/tclvars.n index b3e1bee..84823e0 100644 --- a/doc/tclvars.n +++ b/doc/tclvars.n @@ -284,8 +284,8 @@ was compiled with threads enabled. \fBuser\fR This identifies the current user based on the login information available on the platform. -This comes from the USER or LOGNAME environment variable on Unix, -and the value from GetUserName on Windows. +This value comes from the getuid() and getpwuid() system calls on Unix, +and the value from the GetUserName() system call on Windows. .TP \fBwordSize\fR This gives the size of the native-machine word in bytes (strictly, it |