On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
>
>> 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.

$ perl -e 'print $>'
500
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