[oak perl] perl can bite me

Belden Lyman blyman at iii.com
Tue Nov 26 10:35:27 CST 2002


David Alban wrote:

> Belden,
> 
> Your doing the:
> 
>   $uid   = getpwnam($name);
> 
> invocation.  root's uid is zero, which is false.
> 
> You probably should test for defined() rather than truth.
> 
> Did I win? :-)
> 
> 


ding-ding-ding, on the nose.




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