Mach equivalent of cuserid() ??

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3 total messages Started by Douglas Scott Thu, 09 Apr 1992 17:09

#511

Author: Douglas Scott
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 17:09

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Does the NeXT have an equivalent of the subroutine cuserid()?  The Sun man page  
describes it as follows:

     cuserid() returns a pointer to  a  string  representing  the
     login  name  under which the owner of the current process is
     logged in.  

Thanks!

--
Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>

Re: Mach equivalent of cuserid() ??

#512

Author: Patrick Robinson
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 17:49

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Douglas Scott writes
> Does the NeXT have an equivalent of the subroutine cuserid()?

Check out getpwent(3).  You can use
   struct passwd *pw_ent = getpwuid(getuid());
and then check pw_ent->pw_name

-Patrick Robinson
 pgr@ramandu.ext.vt.edu

Re: Mach equivalent of cuserid() ??

#570

Author: Nik Gervae
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 23:36

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In article <4084@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)  
writes:
> Does the NeXT have an equivalent of the subroutine cuserid()?  The Sun man  
page  
> describes it as follows:
> 
>      cuserid() returns a pointer to  a  string  representing  the
>      login  name  under which the owner of the current process is
>      logged in.  

From NeXTstep reference, volume 2 (release 2 page 3-65):

NXHomeDirectory(), NXUserName() 

  SUMMARY
    Get user's home directory and name
  LIBRARY
    libNeXT_s.a
  SYNOPSIS
    #import <appkit/Application.h>
    const char *NXHomeDirectory(void)
    const char *NXUserName(void)
  DESCRIPTION
    These functions return the user's home directory and name,
    both of which are cached at launch time.  If the user's id
    has changed since launch time or since the last time either
    of these functions was called, the values are recomputed
    using the standard C library function getpwuid().  (getpwuid()
    is described in its UNIX manual page.)
  RETURN
    NXHomeDirectory() returns a pointer to the full pathname of
    the user's home directory.  NXUserName() returns a pointer to
    the user's name.

--
Nik Gervae
Software Publications
ngervae@next.com

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