http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/59f2edeb8443 changeset: 92274:59f2edeb8443 branch: 2.7 user: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> date: Sat Aug 30 21:04:15 2014 -0400 summary: getuid() returns real process id not effective (closes #22307) files: Doc/library/os.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -188,10 +188,10 @@ .. function:: getlogin() Return the name of the user logged in on the controlling terminal of the - process. For most purposes, it is more useful to use the environment variable - :envvar:`LOGNAME` to find out who the user is, or - ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the currently - effective user id. + process. For most purposes, it is more useful to use the environment + variable :envvar:`LOGNAME` to find out who the user is, or + ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the process's real + user id. Availability: Unix. -- Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython