Pgetuid

Section: Oct. 1, 1991 (2)
Updated: MiNT Programmer's Manual
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NAME

Pgetuid, Pgetgid - get the current user or group id

SYNOPSIS

WORD Pgetuid();
WORD Pgetgid();

DESCRIPTION

Pgetuid returns the user id of the currently running process. This is a number between 0 and 255 which determines the access permissions of the process, and which may be used in multi-user systems to distinguish different users of the system.

Similarly, Pgetgid returns the group id of the currently running process; this will also be a number between 0 and 255.

BUGS

The real user (or group) id is always returned. The kernel also has a notion of the effective user (group) id for setuid (setgid) programs, but no function returns the latter value.