-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:12:58PM +0300, Kari Hurtta wrote: > Deepak Joshi <deepak_cins@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes in gmane.linux.kernel.kernelnewbies: > > > Hi all, > > > > How can i get the user name from uid in kernel space. > > > > Thanks, > > Deepak Joshi > > I guess that NFSv4 server/client code does something similar. > > (NFSv4 protocol passes usernames around. ) > > ( Documentation talks about id mapper daemon. ) Which runs in userspace because user *names* are a userspace thing. The kernel doesn't care about usernames. The kernel only cares about user IDs. The whole issue about usernames is because we poor humans are much better in remembering names instead of numbers. That's why we have DNS to resolve www.kernelnewbies.org to 74.92.59.67. That's why your parents decided to call you "Kari Hurtta" instead of "6455243". Erik - -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGHAq4/PlVHJtIto0RAoyBAJ48MfNnSrNQwZXvD3wUOxl8rj+l6QCfTL4d 7p8lIfptTmvPsFwtWh9zh/w= =XGv+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
