Re: Getting the User/Owner of another process

• Subject: Re: Getting the User/Owner of another process
• From: "Zack Farmsworth" <email@hidden>
• Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:54:40 -0700

From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
To: Zack Farmsworth <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Getting the User/Owner of another process
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:39:47 +0200

On 30 sep 2003, at 22.24, Zack Farmsworth wrote:

IDIOTS!!!!!

Anybody who has programmed on Mac OS X for any length of time (like two days) knows that the SystemConfiguration framework gives the ability to do exactly what Mr. Farmer desires. In case anybody is interested, the information is posted at:

http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1133.html

Fools, all of you.

Good day,
Zack

Firstly, your assumption that everyone who doesn't know this basic fact of Mac programming is an idiot is laughable.

Secondly, even though you seem to be absolutely correct, so were most of the other posters in the thread. There isn't much reason to _want_ to know the current logged in user, so why should we have looked up this in the SystemConfiguration framework? There are certainly a very small number of valid uses for this information, but they're just that -- very few.

A networking driver should not care who is the "console user", especially not with the arrival of fast user switching. Imagine what would happen if some user is using the network device with one setting, and then switches to another user. Should the download that goes on in the background be interrupted just because the networking device needs to switch mode?

/ David

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