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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2019-10-10 12:54:37 +0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2019-10-10 12:54:37 +0200
commite99bb9121787ae30a1872f63b326ce5c130ec7ef (patch)
treeecdd2b7ba575b0848d2770f8e74b40646f512c71 /src/libutil/util.cc
parentd343c03edb8d4d2be7aca4f1a377544b3889b8b3 (diff)
parentc3aaf3b8da1a925c569389f13a861816a781a3c8 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes
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diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index 98a7ea397..9d6bec034 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -486,6 +486,16 @@ std::pair<AutoCloseFD, Path> createTempFile(const Path & prefix)
}
+std::string getUserName()
+{
+ auto pw = getpwuid(geteuid());
+ std::string name = pw ? pw->pw_name : getEnv("USER", "");
+ if (name.empty())
+ throw Error("cannot figure out user name");
+ return name;
+}
+
+
static Lazy<Path> getHome2([]() {
Path homeDir = getEnv("HOME");
if (homeDir.empty()) {