What not to be doing - syscall()

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Tue December 23 2003 14:31, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:21, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> >On Tuesday 23 December 2003 11:56, Frans Englich wrote:
> >> Throughout the kde sources getlogin(), unistd.h is used instead of the
> >> KUser class. Besides the performance difference(if you could argue it
> >> matter in this case), is there any other reasons to prefer getlogin()?
> >> According to the manpages getlogin() is evil. Does it matter when it
> >> comes to portability? What is the preferred method?
> >
> >Note also that there's the KUser class in kdeadmin/kuser and the totally
> >different (and much neater) one in kdelibs.
>
> Do you see a possibility to consollidate this class with the kuser class
> from kdelibs? That one currently only offers readonly access to a users
> property, see kdelibs/kdecore/kuser.h

But not before KDE 3.2 is released I would say.

Cheers,
Waldo
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