Re: specifying user or socketfile for libxmms

Håvard Kvålen <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:06:23 +0100 (CET)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.multimedia.xmms.devel
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Mark Rafn wrote:

> Can anyone describe how g_get_user_name figures out the name to use?  It 
> doesn't seem to care about uid, nor any environment var I could find.  

Glib uses getuid(2).  It caches the result though, so if you change uid, 
it wont get updated if it already has one value.

 - Håvard