From 3f48d394930097724d5eb01499896d52ced4c4fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 21:04:15 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] getuid() returns real process id not effective (closes #22307) --- Doc/library/os.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 32051c078f..1ab039af08 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -188,10 +188,10 @@ process and user. .. function:: getlogin() Return the name of the user logged in on the controlling terminal of the - process. For most purposes, it is more useful to use the environment variable - :envvar:`LOGNAME` to find out who the user is, or - ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the currently - effective user id. + process. For most purposes, it is more useful to use the environment + variable :envvar:`LOGNAME` to find out who the user is, or + ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the process's real + user id. Availability: Unix. -- 2.50.1