Samir Seth wrote:
> Hi
>
> Following LFS 7.3 instructions. I am logged in with user "foo", and the su
> into lfs user for the LFS build instructions.
>
> While building CoreUtils 8.21 i see one test failure. On debugging, i find
> that the failure is that getlogin() is returning "foo", while
> getenv("LOGNAME") is returning "lfs". Hence test assertion is failing.
>
> Is this
>
> a) expected behaviour, and can I ignore the error?

No.  Yes.

> b) a bug which needs reporting or

No.

> c) am I wrong in working with an su'ed user login

I assume you just decided to use a user, foo, instead of 'nobody'.  That 
shouldn't make any difference, but why do you deviate (from our 
perspective in a random way) from the book and then ask us why there is 
a problem?

   -- Bruce
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