Feature #5610
closedAllow strings as input for Process.uid=
Description
On my unix system I often have a "debug" user account, belonging to the "debug" group.
With:
Process.euid
You can find out the effective uid and you can change it via =.
Process.euid = 522
That works. Today I tried to do this though:
Process.euid = "debug"
It does not work because .euid= wants a string.
Would it not be better to be more flexible than that? Internally it
could be converted into a number anyway as /etc/passwd can be
read. And if it can not be converted, an exception could be raised.
At least for me that would be quite convenient, no idea if this has
merit for others, but then again it is just a proposal. :)
Thank you for reading.
Files
Updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler) almost 13 years ago
Oops, sorry. Not a bug, but a feature request. Hmm not sure how to change it ...
Updated by drbrain (Eric Hodel) almost 13 years ago
- Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
- Category set to core
- Priority changed from 3 to Normal
- Target version set to 2.0.0
Updated by kosaki (Motohiro KOSAKI) almost 13 years ago
The request looks make sense to me.
Updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh) over 12 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Assigned
- Assignee set to kosaki (Motohiro KOSAKI)
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 12 years ago
- File 0001-allow-strings-as-input-user-group-id.patch 0001-allow-strings-as-input-user-group-id.patch added
=begin
Since (({Process.groups=})) already accepts strings, this proposal sounds reasonable.
=end
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 12 years ago
- Status changed from Assigned to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
This issue was solved with changeset r35158.
markus, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.
- process.c (obj2uid, obj2gid): allow strings as input user/group id.
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