precompiled probing scenarios

[Stone, Joshua I]

On Friday, October 20, 2006 1:13 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> dsmith wrote:
>> [...]
>> I don't hash the getuid(), since:
>> - by default your cache is stored in your home directory
>> - who you are doesn't change the pass 2-4 output
> 
> That's all true.  One possible reason for including getuid() anyway is
> so that two different sudo-empowered people can run the same script at
> the same time without one having to disable his cache.

Also, uid isn't always in sync with $HOME.  Besides people doing weird
things tweaking it, a simple example is that sudo may or may not change
$HOME to ~root.

Josh