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Re: address@hidden: tramp sudo:: and version control on RCS root control
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: address@hidden: tramp sudo:: and version control on RCS root controlled files] |
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Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:28:39 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:02:59 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
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> > 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.
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> We could try and use (process-file "whoami") or (process-file "id").
Can we assume that these commands are always available on all
supported systems?