Linux stdio.h exposes the declaration of cuserid() both with standard version macros and with _GNU_SOURCE:
tony@mars:~/play$ cat testcuserid.c #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <stdio.h> int main() { puts(cuserid(NULL)); return 0; } tony@mars:~/play$ gcc -otestcuserid -Werror=all testcuserid.c tony@mars:~/play$ ./testcuserid tony tony@mars:~/play$ uname -a Linux mars 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u4 (2018-08-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux while on Cygwin _GNU_SOURCE doesn't expose cuserid(): tony@phobos /cygdrive/n/play $ gcc -otestcuserid.exe -Werror=all testcuserid.c testcuserid.c: In function ‘main’: testcuserid.c:5:8: error: implicit declaration of function ‘cuserid’; did you mean ‘L_cuserid’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] puts(cuserid(NULL)); ^~~~~~~ L_cuserid testcuserid.c:5:8: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘puts’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] In file included from testcuserid.c:2:0: /usr/include/stdio.h:221:5: note: expected ‘const char *’ but argument is of type ‘int’ int puts (const char *); ^~~~ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors tony@phobos /cygdrive/n/play $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 phobos 2.11.2(0.329/5/3) 2018-11-08 14:34 x86_64 Cygwin This seems unintentional, since L_cuserid is exposed with _GNU_SOURCE on Cygwin: tony@phobos /cygdrive/n/play $ cat testlcuserid.c #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("%d\n", (int)L_cuserid); return 0; } tony@phobos /cygdrive/n/play $ gcc -otestlcuserid.exe -Werror=all testlcuserid.c and on Linux: tony@mars:~/play$ gcc -otestlcuserid -Werror=all testlcuserid.c (neither produces a diagnostic) Tony -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple