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diff --git a/man/man3/getuser.html b/man/man3/getuser.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c34b23cf --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/getuser.html @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +<head> +<title>getuser(3) - Plan 9 from User Space</title> +<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv=Content-Type> +</head> +<body bgcolor=#ffffff> +<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%> +<tr height=10><td> +<tr><td width=20><td> +<tr><td width=20><td><b>GETUSER(3)</b><td align=right><b>GETUSER(3)</b> +<tr><td width=20><td colspan=2> + <br> +<p><font size=+1><b>NAME </b></font><br> + +<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td> + + getuser, sysname – get user or system name<br> + +</table> +<p><font size=+1><b>SYNOPSIS </b></font><br> + +<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td> + + <tt><font size=+1>#include <u.h><br> + #include <libc.h> + <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=5><td></table> + </font></tt> + <tt><font size=+1>char* getuser(void) + <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=5><td></table> + </font></tt> + <tt><font size=+1>char* sysname(void)<br> + </font></tt> +</table> +<p><font size=+1><b>DESCRIPTION </b></font><br> + +<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td> + + <i>Getuser</i> returns a pointer to static data which contains the null-terminated + name of the user who owns the current process. <i>Getuser</i> calls <a href="../man2/getuid.html"><i>getuid</i>(2)</a> + and then reads <tt><font size=+1>/etc/passwd</font></tt> to find the corresponding name. + <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=5><td></table> + + <i>Sysname</i> returns a pointer to static data which contains the name + of the machine on which the current process is running. <i>Sysname</i> + looks first for an environment variable <tt><font size=+1>$sysname</font></tt>. If there is + no such variable, <i>sysname</i> calls <a href="../man2/gethostname.html"><i>gethostname</i>(2)</a> and truncates the + returned name at the first dot. If <i>gethostname</i> fails, + <i>sysname</i> returns the default name <tt><font size=+1>gnot</font></tt>. + <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=5><td></table> + + Unlike <i>getuser</i>, <i>sysname</i> caches the string, deriving the host name + only once.<br> + +</table> +<p><font size=+1><b>SOURCE </b></font><br> + +<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td> + + <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/src/lib9/getuser.c<br> + /usr/local/plan9/src/lib9/sysname.c<br> + </font></tt> +</table> + +<td width=20> +<tr height=20><td> +</table> +<!-- TRAILER --> +<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%> +<tr height=15><td width=10><td><td width=10> +<tr><td><td> +<center> +<a href="../../"><img src="../../dist/spaceglenda100.png" alt="Space Glenda" border=1></a> +</center> +</table> +<!-- TRAILER --> +</body></html> |