From e218bcbf3936b5fb8124d22ecc7c0d2e92a8886b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 21:04:15 -0400
Subject: getuid() returns real process id not effective (closes #22307)
---
Doc/library/os.rst | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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.
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