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Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value |
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Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:26:41 +0200 |
Martin Koeppe <address@hidden> wrote:
> A question arises: How should one portably test for "root"? Neither
> "root" nor uid 0 seem to be a POSIX requirement. I found one solution
> so far, but I'm not sure how good it really is:
>
> For shell scripts run:
> $ /usr/sbin/chroot / /bin/true
> If successful, you have root rights.
I'm leery of this.
What if chroot works for non-privileged users on some type of system?
Since Interix is the problem here, how about adding
a test that'd be run solely on that system?
- gettext clobbers errno (was: Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value), (continued)
- Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value, Bruno Haible, 2007/10/06
- Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value, Jim Meyering, 2007/10/06
- Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value, Bruno Haible, 2007/10/06
- Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value, Martin Koeppe, 2007/10/08
- Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value, Bruno Haible, 2007/10/08
- Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value, Martin Koeppe, 2007/10/08
- Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value, Bruno Haible, 2007/10/08
Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value,
Jim Meyering <=