Re: 23.0.60; uid problems on w32

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:47:43 +0200
> > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> > CC: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
> >  address@hidden
> >
> > > All we need to do is return a uid and user name
> > > for each SID we get, and perhaps also handle the case where two
> > > different SIDs map to the same uid, so that we don't return incorrect
> > > user name for a given uid or vice versa.  This can be done by caching
> > > the full SIDs internally (I have somewhere a version of `stat' that
> > > does precisely that, which I wrote for my private port of GNU `ls').
> > I do not understand. When the full SID is gone how can you distunguish 
> > between all SIDs mapping to a uid?
>
> It's not gone, it is cached internally by the implementation of `stat'
> I wrote.  It is just not exposed to the callers.

Eh, sorry. I meant "how can you from the uid choose the SID from all 
those SIDs mapping to this uid"?