On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. $ perl -e 'print $>' 500 -- 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