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[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> > Hm...does Jessie not set $UID?
> 
> You have a typo in there.  It's $UI, no D.  (or was a while ago.  I couldn't 
> figure out what it was trying to do.)

That typo was fixed yesterday.

> It's not in my environment, but $UID works.  Is that something special with 
> bash?

I don't actually know.  Oddly enough, I've never had to test for rootness
from shell before.

I found this:  http://dabase.com/e/13022/

I'll apply one of those tests.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>