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Subject: Re: /etc/passwd emulation
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From: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date: 10 Sep 1999 19:00:29 +0900
In-Reply-To: Egor Duda's message of Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:05:13 +0400
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>>> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:05:13 +0400
>>> Egor Duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru> said:

> hmm. calling getuid() in /etc/passwd emulation code seems to be rather
> strange, as long as getuid() use /etc/passwd to retrieve uid :)
> 
> So, actually getuid() will always return DEFAULT_UID :)

I see.

Now, I came to realize it is not so bad idea that the uid become
always DEFAULT_UID when there is no /etc/passwd. I couldn't,
however, understand why the emulation code make the user name
`Administrator' when GetUserNameA() fails.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology