Why reinvent the wheel?
[root@black ~]# getent passwd 1
daemon:*:1:1:The devil himself:/root:/sbin/nologin
[root@black ~]#
-mike
On May 7, 2013, at 4:06 AM, Friedrich Locke <friedrich.lo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> I am in need to write a simple program to return the passwd entry for a
> given uid number.
>
> Here you have it:
>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <pwd.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int
> main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> struct passwd *p;
> int e;
>
> e = errno, errno = 0;
> p = getpwuid(0);
> if (errno) {
> fprintf(stdout, "errno is: %u\n", errno);
> return 127;
> }
> errno = e;
>
> fprintf(stdout, "%s\n", p->pw_name);
> return 0;
> }
>
>
> When i execute it i get this on a openbsd:
>
> sioux@lion$ ./pw
> errno is: 13
> sioux@lion$
>
>
> Any ideia why openbsd implementation of getpwuid returns error ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
