[issue10503] os.getuid() documentation should be clear on what kind of uid it is referring

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 19172062e5c0 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.4': specify that getuid() returns the real uid (closes #10503) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/19172062e5c0 New changeset 6dfbe504f659 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7': specify that getuid() return

[issue10503] os.getuid() documentation should be clear on what kind of uid it is referring

Greg added the comment: Here's a wording change in the documentation to clarify this. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +εσχατοκυριος Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35514/mywork.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue10503] os.getuid() documentation should be clear on what kind of uid it is referring

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[issue10503] os.getuid() documentation should be clear on what kind of uid it is referring

Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: Indeed, now that I google for "getlogin", it's not easy to figure out what kind of user it is supposed to return exactly. For getuid() it seems pretty clear that we're talking about _real_ uid, though. http://www.manpagez.com/man/2/getuid/ http://linux.die.

[issue10503] os.getuid() documentation should be clear on what kind of uid it is referring

R. David Murray added the comment: These are wrappers around the posix functions. As such the unix man pages are a better authority than the Python docs :) Still, we could certainly improve the docs. The getlogin error is probably a miscopy from the man page: the man page on my system show

[issue10503] os.getuid() documentation should be clear on what kind of uid it is referring

Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: Update: I think also os.getlogin() doc is wrong. This is what it states (2.7 doc): > Return the name of the user logged in on the controlling terminal of > the process. For most purposes, it is more useful to use the > environment variable LOGNAME to find

[issue10503] os.getuid() documentation should be clear on what kind of uid it is referring

New submission from Giampaolo Rodola' : http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.getuid os.getuid() documentation just states: > Return the current process’s user id. It is not clear, however, whether "user id" refers to real, effective or saved user id. As per: http://linux.about.com/librar