Re: address@hidden: tramp sudo:: and version control on RCS root controlled files]

[Stefan Monnier]

> The only solution I can think of would be to have a new
> file-handler-sensitive operation (file-login-name FILE) which returns
> the name of the user under which Emacs accesses the given FILE.  For
> local files, that would be equivalent to user-login-name, for remote
> files it would be the name of the remote user, or "root" if Tramp sudo::
> is involved.

We could try and use (process-file "whoami") or (process-file "id").


        Stefan