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+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Joerg Wunsch
+.\"
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\" This product includes software developed by Joerg Wunsch
+.\" 4. The name of the developer may not be used to endorse or promote
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+.\"
+.\" $Id$
+.\"
+.Dd April 10, 1995
+.Os
+.Dt CUSERID 3
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm cuserid
+.Nd get user name associated with effective UID
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <stdio.h>
+.Ft char *
+.Fn cuserid "char *s"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Bf -symbolic
+The cuserid function is made obsolete by getpwuid.
+.br
+It is available from the compatibility library, libcompat.
+.Ef
+.Pp
+The function
+.Nm cuserid
+gets the user name associated with the effective UID of the current
+process. If the argument
+.Fa s
+is non-zero, the name is copied to the buffer it is pointing to,
+and that address is being returned. This buffer must provide space
+for at least
+.Em L_cuserid
+characters, this constant is defined in
+.Pa Aq stdio.h .
+
+If
+.Fa s
+is zero, an internal array is used an its address will be returned.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+.Nm cuserid
+returns the address of an array where the name has been stored to.
+
+If the name associated with the effective UID of the current process
+could not be found, either a null pointer will be returned, or
+.Po
+if
+.Fa s
+is non-zero
+.Pc
+the buffer
+.Fa s
+will be filled with a null string.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getpwuid 3 ,
+.Xr geteuid 3 .
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