From: Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>
To: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com>, libc-help@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: definitions of uid and euid
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 12:54:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <889aa05b332f3da4db7b5e3159bd5241f35007c7.camel@mad-scientist.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABrM6wkBrkz1DiyBWAqK=Nqj8e3=bs=NurR-eK7RF4Y6Ob_idA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2021-02-02 at 11:04 -0600, Peng Yu via Libc-help wrote:
> Could anybody explain the definitions of uid and euid, and provide a
> minimum working example demonstrating when they are different?
Google is helpful here I think; this is a UNIX/POSIX operating system
thing not a libc thing.
For example this answer from the first hit I got seems informative and
pretty accurate
https://stackoverflow.com/a/32456814/939557
and other answers to that question go into more details.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-02 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-02 17:04 Peng Yu
2021-02-02 17:54 ` Paul Smith [this message]
2021-02-03 1:49 ` Jeffrey Walton
2021-02-03 3:24 ` Peng Yu
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