From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Help: what they are for? Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 20:05:17 -0500 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <34B4264D.79D0@cs.com> References: Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp234.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Ivo Stoykov wrote: > > I found two functions int libc which have only quoted (from info > file) help. Unfortunately it is very unclear to me. Could > somebody explain me more comprehensive what they are for? And what > means 42 returned value? geteuid() and getgid() are Unix functions that deal with users and groups. They are useless on MS-DOS. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | "Sex should be friendly. Otherwise | | aka Fighteer I | stick to mechanical toys; it's more | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | sanitary." | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | - Lazarus Long | ---------------------------------------------------------------------