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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 | e218bcbf3936b5fb8124d22ecc7c0d2e92a8886b (patch) | |
| tree | c51669d9b7b1507b2d143d98792bc44782f6ff7d /Doc/library/os.rst | |
| parent | 0cff49fcf9b5689a8940c318ea0d846317f3a7d3 (diff) | |
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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 bb751f4..0a59108 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -281,10 +281,10 @@ 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 variables - :envvar:`LOGNAME` or :envvar:`USERNAME` 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 + variables :envvar:`LOGNAME` or :envvar:`USERNAME` to find out who the user + is, or ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the current + real user id. Availability: Unix, Windows. |