Mitch Capper wrote:
> *Windows Security / Permissions*
> The no-op permissions/getuser/group branch is poor. Windows permissions are
> not considered at all, and all permission calls just silently succeed. Any
> user calls return the current user and group calls return a generic string.
> In addition to return the current user it uses getlogin which gnulib
> uses GetUserName native api call but that requires linking with Advapi32
> and I don't know how to properly add that requirement with gnulib. There
> is getenv("username") but clearly that is not a great choice too.
The Windows security model and the Unix security model are different enough
that applications typically will work with #ifdef here. Especially since
the Windows security model is based on SIDs, which are strings and don't
fit into a 64-bit integer, one cannot expect to have a good correspondence.
The current state is an attempt to make code compile if it doesn't use
<pwd.h> or <grp.h>. I don't know whether this state can be significantly
improved. But if you have reasonable suggestions, please show them!
Bruno
