[fpc-pascal] Get user ID for name on Linux

[Tobias Giesen]

Many thanks! That's great. The completeness of FPC units and packages is really
astonishing.

Cheers,
Tobias

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On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 06:36:32 +0000
Graeme Geldenhuys <mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:

> On 2018-01-03 00:12, Tobias Giesen wrote:
> > Unfortunately Libc and UnixUtils don't seem to be available in 64-bit, so I can't call the
> > functions getpwnam or GetUserId.
> 
> As Marco said, you can use the "users" unit. Here is an example of how I 
> use in in fpGUI, and it supports 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
> 
>  
> https://github.com/graemeg/fpGUI/blob/develop/src/corelib/x11/fpg_x11.pas#L4010-L4044
> 
> Note though that it only works for Linux. So other UNIX-type systems 
> like FreeBSD and Solaris are not supported.
> 
> 
> Regards,
>    Graeme
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Kind Regards,
Tobias Giesen

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