All I really use 'libc' for is to retrieve the user name and group
name from the user and group id's of files. As I said, it's not
critical, I can always display the id's only. Or maybe parse the
/etc/groups and /etc/passwd files to get the names, but I heard that's
not very accurate for some reason.
Really the only reliable way to get that information is to link with
libc. Reading the files in /etc will work on a basic system but will
fail if an alternate authentication system is in use.
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