Many thanks! That's great. The completeness of FPC units and packages is really astonishing.
Cheers, Tobias ---- On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 06:36:32 +0000 Graeme Geldenhuys <mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote: > On 2018-01-03 00:12, Tobias Giesen wrote: > > Unfortunately Libc and UnixUtils don't seem to be available in 64-bit, so I > > can't call the > > functions getpwnam or GetUserId. > > As Marco said, you can use the "users" unit. Here is an example of how I > use in in fpGUI, and it supports 32-bit and 64-bit systems. > > > https://github.com/graemeg/fpGUI/blob/develop/src/corelib/x11/fpg_x11.pas#L4010-L4044 > > Note though that it only works for Linux. So other UNIX-type systems > like FreeBSD and Solaris are not supported. > > > Regards, > Graeme > > -- > fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal > http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ > > My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen Super Flexible Software Ltd. & Co. KG Buddenstr. 29-31 48143 Münster, Germany www.superflexible.com www.tgtools.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Registered at register court Münster as HRA 9716 Liability / general partner: TGTools Ltd. Company No. 05513299 Registered in England and Wales Directors: Tobias Giesen and Claudia Giesen _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
