Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: High UID support for Linux | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | | Date | 27 Nov 1998 15:38:40 +0100 |
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pjb1008@cam.ac.uk (Peter Benie) writes:
|> H. Peter Anvin writes ("Re: High UID support for Linux"): |> > Followup to: <E0zioU5-0000tA-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> |> > By author: pjb1008@cam.ac.uk (Peter Benie) |> > [snip - hack to get getpwuid(getuid()) to work. |> > |> > I don't think this is beneficial. Any uid/gid-aware program is going |> > to have to deal. There just isn't a way around it. Fortunately not |> > too many programs really care about uid/gid's. |> |> I strongly disagree. _Lots_ of programs care about _your_ home |> directory so they can look for configuration files and don't use uids |> for anything else.
They will just use getenv("HOME"). No need for uid.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org
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