NAME

cuserid − get character login name of the user

SYNTAX

#include <stdio.h>

char ∗cuserid (s)
char ∗s;

DESCRIPTION

The cuserid subroutine generates a character-string representation of the login name of the owner of the current process. If s is a NULL pointer, this representation is generated in an internal static area, the address of which is returned.  Otherwise, s is assumed to point to an array of at least L_cuserid characters; the representation is left in this array. The constant L_cuserid is defined in the <stdio.h> header file.

RETURN VALUE

If the login name cannot be found, cuserid returns a NULL pointer; if s is not a NULL pointer, a null character (\0) will be placed at s[0]. 

SEE ALSO

getlogin(3), getpwent(3)

Subroutines