On Jan 15, 2015, at 19:34, Jeff King wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:27:34PM -0800, Kyle J. McKay wrote:
"id -u" works for me in MSYS and cygwin (each appears to have it's
own
id.exe).
That's comforting. MSYS was the one I was most worried about. What UID
do they report? I.e., do they correctly tell us if we are root (or
more accurately, if we are not root)?
It's funny, really. The MSYS version gives a different answer than
the cygwin version although both are non-zero. The MSYS perl gives
the same answer as the MSYS id and the cygwin perl gives the same
answer as the cygwin id.
I'm not even sure what it would mean to "be root" on one of those
systems.
The closest I can think of would be to run as the "SYSTEM" user. And
that's not nearly as simple as just "sudo -s". [1].
I haven't tested that. I will try to remember to give that a try next
time I'm feeling the need for some frustration. ;)
-Kyle
[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00651.html
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