Re: [Patch, libfortran] Fix handling of temporary files

[Janne Blomqvist <blomqvist dot janne at gmail dot com>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 14:43, Janne Blomqvist
<blomqvist.janne@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, I suspect getuid and friends are not actually part of the NSS
> stuff. The uid/gid/euid/egid are maintained for each process by the
> kernel, and NSS only handles translation to/from the numeric id's to
> string values, IP address lookup and so forth.

.. as can be seen with the example below:

#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    uid_t uid = getuid();
    //struct passwd *pwd = getpwuid(uid);
    //printf("%s ", pwd->pw_name);
    printf("%d %d %d %d\n", uid, geteuid(), getgid(), getegid());
    return 0;
}

$ gcc getuid.c -static
$ strace ./a.out
(No need to open further files)

Uncommenting the two commented lines:

$ gcc getuid.c -static
/tmp/cc6B1i8n.o: In function `main':
getuid.c:(.text+0x16): warning: Using 'getpwuid' in statically linked
applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc
version used for linking
$ strace ./a.out
(Evidence of communicating with nscd per the NSS configuration on this system)

Hence get{uid,euid,gid,egid} should not have any problems with static linking.

-- 
Janne Blomqvist