On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:01:25PM -0400, Cliff Woolley wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
>
> > 3) the 5% missing bits i've found so far are:
> >
> > - getuid() i assume that this has been discussed? i have
> > to get latest httpd-2 to find out how this has been tackled.
> > instead i have to do a getenv('USER') [yes, yuck].
>
> Take a look at apr_get_userid(), which among other things is in the "user"
> subdirectory of APR.
it doesn't do getuid() / geteuid() - it does getpwnam / getpwuid.
so there's no means to obtain _current_ user id of running
process, only a lookup from a username (or userid).
when a NULL name or NULL uid is passed in to apr_get_userid(),
it returns an APR error.
i did check :)
all best,
luke
