From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andre Spiegel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Ronan.Keryell@enstb.org: tramp sudo:: and version control on RCS root controlled files] Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:11:38 +0100 Message-ID: <1132567898.3050.183.camel@localhost> References: <1132399024.3050.90.camel@localhost> <87psov6yo6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <1132508810.3050.102.camel@localhost> <873blr6imw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132588772 5548 80.91.229.2 (21 Nov 2005 15:59:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:59:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 21 16:59:29 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeE3C-0005Hz-Eu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:57:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeE3C-0004lG-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:57:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EeC1O-0006DQ-Nc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:47:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EeB1w-00010D-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:44:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ee8ea-0003Xw-KJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:12:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.113.160.46] (helo=mail.o2.co.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ee8eV-0002EL-Kv; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:11:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.191.94.110] (84.191.94.110) by mail.o2.co.uk (7.0.045) id 436B9D4F00201FB3; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:11:40 +0000 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <873blr6imw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46403 Archived-At: On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 17:49 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > A related operation, also used in VC, is to find a user's login name, > > given the uid of that user. > > When do we need that? I thought it was only used on the output of > file-attributes, and so shouldn't be needed now that this operation takes an > `id-format' argument to specifies whether to return uids/gids or > user/group-names. Exactly what I was looking for. I wasn't aware of this id-format parameter. Thanks, I'll make the necessary changes.