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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:36:09 +0200
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@samba-tng.org>
To: Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>
Cc: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net>, dev@apr.apache.org
Subject: Re: proposal:  apr_get_username()
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 from cliffwoolley@yahoo.com on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 04:56:24PM -0400

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 04:56:24PM -0400, Cliff Woolley wrote:

> > If it's okay with people, I'd like to add apr_get_username().  I can
> > implement the Unix part by calling getuid().  But somebody else would
> > need to write the win32 equivalent.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> +1... Luke has asked for this as well.  

yesplease.

> I have no idea how it would work
> on Win32, but there's got to be some way or another to do it...

recommend taking a look at cygwin32's sourcecode, they have
to do it in there (i don't believe it's fake).

the only thing that's almost impossible is setuid()-Win32,
because there isn't one.

luke