Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 59f2edeb8443 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7':
getuid() returns real process id not effective (closes #22307)
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/59f2edeb8443
New changeset c30163548f64 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.4':
getuid() returns real pr
New submission from Carlo:
The documentation for os.getlogin() says:
... ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the currently
effective user id
Either, os.getuid() should be changed to os.geteuid(), or the wording should be
changed.
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assignee: docs@python
compone
