Re: 23.0.60; uid problems on w32

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.