Pgetuid(2)                Oct. 1, 1991                 Pgetuid(2)



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  pro-
     cess.  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.

SEE ALSO
     Psetuid(2)

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.





























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