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5 * Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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22 /* Hacked by Tito Ragusa (c) 2004 <farmatito@tiscali.it> to make it more
25 * if bufsize is > 0 char *user can not be set to NULL
26 * on success username is written on static allocated buffer
27 * on failure uid as string is written to buffer and NULL is returned
28 * if bufsize is = 0 char *user can be set to NULL
29 * on success username is returned
30 * on failure NULL is returned
31 * if bufsize is < 0 char *user can be set to NULL
32 * on success username is returned
33 * on failure an error message is printed and the program exits
45 /* gets a username given a uid */
46 char * my_getpwuid(char *name, long uid, int bufsize)
48 struct passwd *myuser;
50 myuser = getpwuid(uid);
54 snprintf(name, bufsize, "%ld", (long)uid);
57 bb_error_msg_and_die("unknown uid %ld", (long)uid);
64 return safe_strncpy(name, myuser->pw_name, bufsize);
66 return myuser->pw_name;