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Application Usage
None.
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for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
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IEEE/The Open Group 2017 GETEUID(3POSIX)
Description
The geteuid() function shall return the effective user ID of the calling process. The geteuid() function
shall not modify errno.
Errors
No errors are defined.
Thefollowingsectionsareinformative.Examples
None.
Future Directions
None.
Name
geteuid — get the effective user ID
Prolog
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface
may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface
may not be implemented on Linux.
Rationale
In a conforming environment, geteuid() will always succeed. It is possible for implementations to provide
an extension where a process in a non-conforming environment will not be associated with a user or group
ID. It is recommended that such implementations return (uid_t)-1 and set errno to indicate such an
environment; doing so does not violate this standard, since such an environment is already an extension.
Return Value
The geteuid() function shall always be successful and no return value is reserved to indicate an error.
See Also
getegid(), getgid(), getuid(), setegid(), seteuid(), setgid(), setregid(), setreuid(), setuid()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <sys_types.h>, <unistd.h>Synopsis
#include <unistd.h>
uid_t geteuid(void);
