Re: [patch]: lib/cedit.menu: portability fixes

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Andrew V. Samoilov wrote:

> Hello, Pavel!
>
> One more fix for Solaris.

I think it's over-engineered.  Isn't $USER standard?  Does "id -u" work?
It may be more reliable to use the numeric user ID.  I suggest one of the
following, sorted in the order of decreased preference:

awk -F: '$1 == ENVIRON["USER"] {print $5}' /etc/passwd
awk -F: '$1 == "'$USER'" {print $5}' /etc/passwd
awk -F: '$3 == "'`id -u`'" {print $5}' /etc/passwd
awk -F: '$3 == "'`id | sed 's/^.*uid=\([^(]*\).*$/\1/'`'" {print $5}' /etc/passwd

> BTW, it will be fine to rename
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/binaries/SunOS/mc-4.6.0-SunOS.tar.Z
> to mc-4.6.0-sol7-sparc-local.tar.Z and to place /usr/local/README from
> this tarball near tarball.

I have no idea why more generic "SunOS" should be replaced with more
specific "sol7" (what would Solaris 8 users think?), but I put README to
the same directory.

By the way, your mail program gives text attachments mime-type plain/text,
but it should be text/plain.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin