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home | helpx minix x x minixx GETUID(2) Linux Programmer's Manual GETUID(2) NAME getuid, geteuid - get user identity SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/types.h> uid_t getuid(void); uid_t geteuid(void); DESCRIPTION getuid() returns the real user ID of the calling process. geteuid() returns the effective user ID of the calling process. ERRORS These functions are always successful. CONFORMING TO POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD. NOTES History In UNIX V6 the getuid() call returned (euid __ 8) + uid. UNIX V7 in- troduced separate calls getuid() and geteuid(). The original Linux getuid() and geteuid() system calls supported only 16-bit user IDs. Subsequently, Linux 2.4 added getuid32() and ge- teuid32(), supporting 32-bit IDs. The glibc getuid() and geteuid() wrapper functions transparently deal with the variations across kernel versions. On Alpha, instead of a pair of getuid() and geteuid() system calls, a single getxuid() system call is provided, which returns a pair of real and effective UIDs. The glibc getuid() and geteuid() wrapper functions transparently deal with this. See syscall(2) for details regarding register mapping. SEE ALSO getresuid(2), setreuid(2), setuid(2), credentials(7) COLOPHON This page is part of release 5.05 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2019-03-06 GETUID(2)
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