Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Exactly. I am happy to submit a patch, but I cannot think of any > mechanisms besides: > > 1. Calling `id`, which I suspect is very not portable. > > 2. Writing a C program to check getuid(). That's portable for most > Unixes. It looks like we already have a hacky wrapper on mingw that > will always return "1". > > Is (2) too gross? Not overly gross compared to some existing test-*.c files, I would say. I wondered what 'perl -e 'print $>' would say in mingw, and if that is portable enough, though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html