Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rod...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Indeed, now that I google for "getlogin", it's not easy to figure out what kind 
of user it is supposed to return exactly.

For getuid() it seems pretty clear that we're talking about _real_ uid, though.
http://www.manpagez.com/man/2/getuid/
http://linux.die.net/man/2/getuid

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