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<tr><td width=20><td><b>GETUSER(3)</b><td align=right><b>GETUSER(3)</b>
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<p><font size=+1><b>NAME     </b></font><br>

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    getuser, sysname &ndash; get user or system name<br>
    
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<p><font size=+1><b>SYNOPSIS     </b></font><br>

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    <tt><font size=+1>#include &lt;u.h&gt;<br>
    #include &lt;libc.h&gt; 
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    <tt><font size=+1>char* &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;getuser(void) 
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    <tt><font size=+1>char* &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;sysname(void)<br>
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<p><font size=+1><b>DESCRIPTION     </b></font><br>

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    <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. 
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    <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>. 
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    Unlike <i>getuser</i>, <i>sysname</i> caches the string, deriving the host name
    only once.<br>
    
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<p><font size=+1><b>SOURCE     </b></font><br>

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    <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/src/lib9/getuser.c<br>
    /usr/local/plan9/src/lib9/sysname.c<br>
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