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Re: t5539 broken under Mac OS X

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 16, 2015, 00:04 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> 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.

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