.\"return the effective user id (euid) of an object or function .DT geteuid $MUDNAME$ driver help geteuid .SH Name .SI 5 geteuid() - return the effective user id of an object or function .EI .SH Synopsis .SI 5 string geteuid( object ob ); string geteuid( function f ); .EI .SH Description .SP 5 5 If given an object `ob', geteuid() returns the effective user id (euid) of `ob'. If given an argument `f' of type 'function', it returns the euid of the object that created `f'. If the object, at the time of the function variables construction, had no euid, the objects uid is stored instead. .EP .SH See also .SI 5 seteuid(), getuid(), functionp(), export_uid(), previous_object(), this_object(), valid_seteuid() .EI