Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 17:05:07 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.ru> To: FreeBSD-current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: cuserid(3): compat->c resurrection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970302164628.1217A-100000@nagual.ru>
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Since cuserid() is POSIX 1003.1 function, not 4.4 own function, I plan to move it from libcompat to libc. Applications which tries to be machine-independent and follows POSIX often use it, we already have some ports examples. Adding -lcompat in each such case only produces additional troubles for porter. Manpage says that it is obsoleted by getpwuid(), but it just call getpwuid(). Moreover, cuserid() usage not require <pwd.h> be included, so it is more comfortable if we just want to know user name according to geteuid(), cuserid() hide all unneded internals in this case, so I don't see a reason for it to be obsoleted. -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@null.net> http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/
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