+\f
+/*
+ * getpwuid() stuff
+ */
+
+/* Return a newly-allocated string holding the username for "uid", or
+ * NULL if there's no such user.
+ *
+ * KLUDGE: We also return NULL if malloc() runs out of memory
+ * (returning strdup() result) since it's not clear how to handle that
+ * error better. -- WHN 2001-12-28 */
+char *
+uid_username(int uid)
+{
+ struct passwd *p = getpwuid(uid);
+ if (p) {
+ /* The object *p is a static struct which'll be overwritten by
+ * the next call to getpwuid(), so it'd be unsafe to return
+ * p->pw_name without copying. */
+ return strdup(p->pw_name);
+ } else {
+ return 0;
+ }
+}