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authorAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2012-12-16 22:05:49 +1000
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2013-01-03 12:03:10 +1000
commitd5a6ce8ca124d1eea343314b23110e006eb313d5 (patch)
tree31b8d41a7c5b7d725b371c5fa3a3d7e2a5bbfda1
parent5aaf5bcf830cb808de2484c0f3860a22a21a79b4 (diff)
Remove checks for geteuid
The geteuid function is defined in POSIX and we will not support any operating systems without it. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
-rw-r--r--configure.ac2
-rw-r--r--src/pacman/pacman.c4
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 122f3876..8ec0eab8 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK
AC_FUNC_MALLOC
AC_FUNC_MKTIME
AC_FUNC_STRCOLL
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS([dup2 getcwd geteuid getmntinfo gettimeofday memmove memset \
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([dup2 getcwd getmntinfo gettimeofday memmove memset \
mkdir realpath regcomp rmdir setenv setlocale strcasecmp \
strchr strcspn strdup strerror strndup strrchr strsep strstr \
strtol swprintf tcflush wcwidth uname])
diff --git a/src/pacman/pacman.c b/src/pacman/pacman.c
index 2c49fe97..f293a5d1 100644
--- a/src/pacman/pacman.c
+++ b/src/pacman/pacman.c
@@ -758,9 +758,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
size_t i;
struct sigaction new_action, old_action;
const int signals[] = { SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGSEGV };
-#if defined(HAVE_GETEUID)
uid_t myuid = geteuid();
-#endif
/* Set signal handlers */
/* Set up the structure to specify the new action. */
@@ -880,13 +878,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
config->logmask &= ~ALPM_LOG_WARNING;
}
-#if defined(HAVE_GETEUID)
/* check if we have sufficient permission for the requested operation */
if(myuid > 0 && needs_root()) {
pm_printf(ALPM_LOG_ERROR, _("you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.\n"));
cleanup(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
-#endif
if(config->verbose > 0) {
alpm_list_t *j;