Note that this function returns the owner that the process *started* as. Even if you call posix_setuid (or posix_seteuid) it will still report the username the process started as.
use get_current_user() to get the effective real user.
posix_getlogin
Description
string posix_getlogin ( void )Returns the login name of the user owning the current process. See posix_getpwnam() for information how to get more information about this user.
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philip
10-Feb-2004 10:31
10-Feb-2004 10:31