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authorXavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>2008-04-15 17:10:39 +0200
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2008-05-14 09:17:02 -0500
commitfb09d35e6a24ef433005728c77453bce99efd010 (patch)
tree6fa31fac370e66aff0d890b8362a5bd29db9184d
parent33e3182dbd1ad9b68f72914abbf4a93a97b0d79b (diff)
Disable geteuid in cygwin.
This is one of those rare cases where we actually want to code in a platform-specific #ifdef. Because you don't need to be the root user on a Windows box, and fakeroot doesn't exist so we can do easy testing, lets disable any checking of the UID. Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
-rw-r--r--src/pacman/pacman.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/pacman/pacman.c b/src/pacman/pacman.c
index 7ae023b2..66fafa10 100644
--- a/src/pacman/pacman.c
+++ b/src/pacman/pacman.c
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int ret = 0;
struct sigaction new_action, old_action;
-#if defined(HAVE_GETEUID)
+#if defined(HAVE_GETEUID) && !defined(CYGWIN)
/* geteuid undefined in CYGWIN */
uid_t myuid = geteuid();
#endif
@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
cleanup(ret);
}
-#if defined(HAVE_GETEUID)
+#if defined(HAVE_GETEUID) && !defined(CYGWIN)
/* check if we have sufficient permission for the requested operation */
if(myuid > 0 && needs_transaction()) {
pm_printf(PM_LOG_ERROR, _("you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.\n"));