Name
getuid, geteuid — get user identity
DESCRIPTION
getuid
() returns the real
user ID of the current process.
geteuid
() returns the
effective user ID of the current process.
ERRORS
These functions are always successful.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD.
NOTES
History
In Unix V6 the getuid
()
call returned (euid << 8) + uid. Unix V7 introduced
separate calls getuid
() and
geteuid
().
SEE ALSO
setreuid(2), setuid(2)
Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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