Module uid 

Ownership and UID lookup helpers.

These helpers provide cheap ownership probes for filesystem paths and /proc/<pid> directories before higher layers do more expensive work.

Structs

PathStat

Filesystem identity derived from stat(2).

Functions

chown_path

Change the owner of a path while leaving the group unchanged when gid is None.

effective_uid

Return the effective UID of the current process.

path_lstat

Return identity metadata for a filesystem path without following symbolic links.

path_stat

Return identity metadata for a filesystem path, following symbolic links.

path_uid

Return the owning UID for a filesystem path.

proc_stat

Return identity metadata for /proc/<pid>.

proc_stat_at

Return identity metadata for /proc/<pid> under an explicit procfs root.

proc_uid

Return the owning UID for /proc/<pid>.

proc_uid_at

Return the owning UID for /proc/<pid> under an explicit procfs root.