Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: TheSaint Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: The pythonic way equal to "whoami" Followup-To: comp.lang.python Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:34:59 +0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 8 Message-ID: References: <20110608130845.250b0950@kruskal.chead> NNTP-Posting-Host: iaBwBAVzn+HfzPBjpdhanQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:7289 Christopher Head wrote: > It is. Until Linux capabilities, EUID==0 used to be special-cased in the > kernel Thank you all, I got a good learning *and* something to rememeber. -- goto /dev/null