Issue 22307: os.getlogin() documentation has misleading side note (original) (raw)

Issue22307

Created on 2014-08-30 12:23 by Carlo, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg226139 - (view) Author: Carlo (Carlo) Date: 2014-08-30 12:23
The documentation for os.getlogin() says: ... ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the currently effective user id Either, os.getuid() should be changed to os.geteuid(), or the wording should be changed.
msg226155 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2014-08-31 01:06
New changeset 59f2edeb8443 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7': getuid() returns real process id not effective (closes #22307) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/59f2edeb8443 New changeset c30163548f64 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.4': getuid() returns real process id not effective (closes #22307) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c30163548f64 New changeset 164a17eca081 by Benjamin Peterson in branch 'default': merge 3.4 (closes #22307) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/164a17eca081
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:58:07 admin set github: 66503
2014-08-31 01:06:10 python-dev set status: open -> closednosy: + python-devmessages: + resolution: fixedstage: resolved
2014-08-30 12:23:21 Carlo create