[GRASS5] cuserid alternative?

[William K]

I checked the Mac OS X UNIX porting list archives and found a 
suggestion to use getlogin() instead of cuserid (at least for the case 
of passing a null pointer to cuserid).  Any thoughts?  I tried it by 
changing dbmi_base/whoami.c to use that instead of cuserid - compiles 
OK.

Is db_whoami() even used anywhere?  I didn't see it used in any of the 
source.  Without it being used anywhere, I can't really say if 
replacing cuserid() with getlogin() works (it's beyond my C knowledge 
to say if it should work).


FYI, this is my new whoami.c (let me know if anything is wrong with it):

#include <unistd.h>

/*!
  \fn
  \brief
  \return
  \param
*/
char *
db_whoami()
{
     char *getlogin();

     return getlogin();
}

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