From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 12:42:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: doc: mention logname improvement in NEWS
X-Git-Tag: v9.7~28
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dcfe6b2064f56e87728bd0d455318fdab57b131a;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

doc: mention logname improvement in NEWS

* NEWS: Mention the improvement in gnulib commit 90840606.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/76876
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e7bc3884cb..8d82bc3525 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   entries prefixed with the service (like "sshd") were not matched.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-9.4]
 
+** Improvements
+
+  'logname' correctly returns the user who logged in the session,
+  on more systems.  Previously on musl or uclibc it would have merely
+  output the LOGNAME environment variable.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 9.6 (2025-01-17) [stable]