On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:06:11PM +0900, Ian Kent wrote: > > Dumb old me, I really only need the uid. > The gid can come from the get user info functions of glibc. In case the process was executed from a setgid executable, you might have a different gid from what the user has. In fact, I don't know why you may need more than the pid, since with the pid you can get to the task's effective uid/gid and maybe other such information you need. Cheers, Fábio Olivé -- ex sed lex awk yacc, e pluribus unix, amem - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html