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geteuid

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geteuid

Name

geteuid() - return the effective user id of an object or function

Synopsis

string geteuid( object ob );
string geteuid( function f );

Description

If given an object `ob', geteuid() returns the effective user id (euid) of `ob'. If given an argument `f' of type 'function', it returns the euid of the object that created `f'. If the object, at the time of the function variables construction, had no euid, the objects uid is stored instead.

See also

seteuid(), getuid(), functionp(), export_uid(), previous_object(), this_object(), valid_seteuid()