.\"return the effective user id (euid) of an object or function
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geteuid
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geteuid

.SH Name
.SI 5
geteuid() - return the effective user id of an object or function
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.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.
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.SH See also
.SI 5
seteuid(), getuid(), functionp(), export_uid(),
previous_object(), this_object(), valid_seteuid()
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