From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2314 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Resolving user names on local system Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:44:59 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Message-ID: <844r4y5zfo.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <874r4yk70e.fsf@jautero.no-ip.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668788 14700 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:53:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:53:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:30:30 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1e440.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e440.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.228.64) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1050500827 1831425 217.225.228.64 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sXTjqOZ1rXEmXbHZztaIBasIsIs= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2454 Original-Lines: 11 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2454 Tue Jan 17 17:30:30 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2314 Archived-At: Juha Autero writes: > I think getpwnam(3) would be the right way to do that. Quick search > didn't reveal equivalent elisp function, though. Which is pretty silly > considering that Emacs uses getpwnam(3) to resolve "~username" type > paths and therefore contains implementation of getpwnam for win32. What about the function user-full-name? Is this what you're looking for or is it lacking somehow? -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)