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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2014-08-31 01:04:15 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2014-08-31 01:04:15 (GMT) |
| commit | 3f48d394930097724d5eb01499896d52ced4c4fc (patch) | |
| tree | ad05f1f0a2b061f077f80f5b428b92a8271dd514 | |
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getuid() returns real process id not effective (closes #22307)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 32051c0..1ab039a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -188,10 +188,10 @@ process and user. .. function:: getlogin() 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 - :envvar:`LOGNAME` to find out who the user is, or - ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the currently - effective user id. + process. For most purposes, it is more useful to use the environment + variable :envvar:`LOGNAME` to find out who the user is, or + ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the process's real + user id. Availability: Unix. |