Function

GLibget_user_name

since: 2.0

Declaration

const gchar*
g_get_user_name (
  void
)

Description

Gets the user name of the current user. The encoding of the returned string is system-defined. On UNIX, it might be the preferred file name encoding, or something else, and there is no guarantee that it is even consistent on a machine. On Windows, it is always UTF-8.

Available since: 2.0

Return value

Type: const gchar*

The user name of the current user.

The data is owned by the called function.
The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.