Can I get the the UID of a given PID using C

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  •  30-05-2021
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Question

I want to get the user ID of a given process ID using C

How can I do it?

Any insight appreciated ;)

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Solution

If you have the procfs file system, then the effective user ID of the files in /proc/<pid> are that of the user.

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