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Author giampaolo.rodola
Recipients docs@python, giampaolo.rodola, r.david.murray
Date 2010-11-22.20:37:40
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Indeed, now that I google for "getlogin", it's not easy to figure out what kind of user it is supposed to return exactly.

For getuid() it seems pretty clear that we're talking about _real_ uid, though.
http://www.manpagez.com/man/2/getuid/
http://linux.die.net/man/2/getuid
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