# HG changeset patch
# User Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com>
# Date 2017-04-20 19:23:38
# Node ID f0ea0f64262714628cba98613958b3ce5e26a9de
# Parent  c3342c1772115a2e3b1afce7157fcc061c39f18a

py3: make posix.getuser return a bytes

diff --git a/mercurial/posix.py b/mercurial/posix.py
--- a/mercurial/posix.py
+++ b/mercurial/posix.py
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ def statfiles(files):
 
 def getuser():
     '''return name of current user'''
-    return getpass.getuser()
+    return pycompat.fsencode(getpass.getuser())
 
 def username(uid=None):
     """Return the name of the user with the given uid.