Plan 9 /sys/man/2/getuser

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 process. Getuser reads /dev/user to find the name.
Sysname provides the same service for the file #c/sysname, which contains the name of the machine. Unlike getuser, sysname caches the string, reading the file only once.

SOURCE

/sys/src/libc/port/getuser.c


	Getuser returns a pointer to static data which contains the null–terminated name of the user who owns the current process. Getuser reads `/dev/user` to find the name. Sysname provides the same service for the file `#c/sysname`, which contains the name of the machine. Unlike getuser, sysname caches the string, reading the file only once.