[fpc-pascal] GetTempFileName in Linux

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 8 October 2010 13:32, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Let me guess: UID->username is a libc function...

Problem is you can't always map a UID to a username under Unix. The
username is not always in the /etc/passwd file. You can have LDAP (I
think that's what it's called), Kerberos etc... users.  I noticed the
same problem in fpGUI's file dialogs. So I wrapped that code in
try..except calls. Try the local user (in /etc/passwd), if it fails to
resolve, fall back to using the UID as is. On standard desktop linux
this is 99% of the times ok, but in a large corporate environment
things might be different.

Either way, using the UID should be fine too...or better that it currently is.


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Regards,
  - Graeme -


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