<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Pierre Fenoll <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pierrefenoll@gmail.com" target="_blank">pierrefenoll@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Now that we have an open issue tracker, could we put feature requests there and have people randomly work on them?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think that is a good idea. getuid(2) and its cousin geteuid(2) never fails and returns quickly, so chances are they are safe to implement as a NIF, but we should definitely check if they may block or if they will take more than 1ms run-time to execute in the kernel.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">On OpenBSD, both calls are signal-handler-safe which is usually a good indication they are relatively safe to call.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">J.</div>
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