Linux
2019-03-06
Aliases: geteuid(2), geteuid(2), geteuid(2), geteuid(2), geteuid(2), geteuid(2), geteuid(2), geteuid(2), geteuid(2), geteuid(2), geteuid(2), geteuid(2), geteuid32(2), geteuid32(2), geteuid32(2), getuid32(2), getuid32(2), getuid32(2), getuid32(2), getuid32(2), getuid32(2), getuid32(2), getuid32(2), getuid32(2), getuid32(2)
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NAME
getuid, geteuid - get user identity
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
uid_t getuid(void);
uid_t geteuid(void);
uid_t geteuid(void);
DESCRIPTION
getuid() returns the real user ID of the calling process.
geteuid() returns the effective user ID of the calling process.
ERRORS
These functions are always successful.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD.
NOTES
History
In UNIX V6 the getuid() call returned (euid << 8) + uid. UNIX V7 introduced separate calls getuid() and geteuid().
The original Linux getuid() and geteuid() system calls supported only 16-bit user IDs. Subsequently, Linux 2.4 added getuid32() and geteuid32(), supporting 32-bit IDs. The glibc getuid() and geteuid() wrapper functions transparently deal with the variations across kernel versions.
On Alpha, instead of a pair of getuid() and geteuid() system calls, a single getxuid() system call is provided, which returns a pair of real and effective UIDs. The glibc getuid() and geteuid() wrapper functions transparently deal with this. See syscall(2) for details regarding register mapping.
