Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!gatech!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Improved WHO(1) ... bug fix and enhancement (source) Message-ID: <12850@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 22 Oct 88 18:42:25 GMT References: <9535@nswitgould.OZ> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.os.minix Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 17 As quoted from <9535@nswitgould.OZ> by nick@nswitgould.OZ (Nick Andrew): +--------------- | I have refrained from adding the "who am i" feature to Who, as in | 4.2, because Minix already has whoami(1). +--------------- Ummm, "whoami" displays the current suid user name, whereas "who am i" prints the login name. At least that's the way it works in BSD and those System V's that have "whoami" (and our System III version). I think "who am i" is a good idea, unless you prefer PWB "logname". ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu allbery@skybridge.sdi.cwru.edu allbery@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.misc is moving off ncoast -- please do NOT send submissions direct (But the aliases are NOT on UUNET yet, use the aliases at backbone sites!)