[fpc-pascal] [SYSTEM]: How detecting if run as root ?

Pete Cervasio cervasio at airmail.net
Thu Oct 12 05:33:57 CEST 2006


On Wednesday 11 October 2006 20:44, Michalis Kamburelis wrote:
> Pete Cervasio wrote:
> > The better way would be to use the geteuid function in the libc unit,
>
> It would be even better to use FpGetEUid function from the BaseUnix
> unit. See
> [http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/baseunix/fpgeteuid.html].

DOH!  Thanks for reminding me, Michalis.  I always forget about seeing if a 
function is already in the RTL when doing things that I know are standard C 
library functions.  Force of habit is my (bad) excuse. :)

Best regards,
Pete C.





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