From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: getlogin(3): mention loginuid Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 22:36:37 +0200 Message-ID: <8ee6ef8b-c976-0410-e525-42689b4bdf94@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Egmont Koblinger Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 04/23/2016 11:00 PM, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > Hi, > > I just got to know about /proc/self/loginuid, as well as getlogin(3) > referring to this file prior to utmp, by browsing this bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328947 (esp. comments > 13-17 are relevant). > > getlogin(3)'s manual page does not mention this at all. (And, for the > record, neither does proc(5), it has a FIXME comment about it). > > Could you please fill in this gap? Hello Egmont, Can you provide some information about this field? If not a patch to the man page, then at least some descriptive text? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html