From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 21:45:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: posix_getlogin():  Be more cautious about interpreting a NULL from
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~659
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e63544f872c4d1af8e76b42b32db79eef12c8902;p=python

posix_getlogin():  Be more cautious about interpreting a NULL from
                   getlogin() -- it is not clear that a NULL is always
                   an error.
---

diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 2ddcebc855..4a991f989d 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -1914,7 +1914,7 @@ posix_getlogin(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
                 posix_error();
             else
                 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OSError,
-                                "unexpected NULL from getlogin()");
+                                "unable to determine login name");
         }
         else
             result = PyString_FromString(name);