Unix to Windows Porting Dictionary for HPC

header file: stdio.h

char * cuserid (char *s)

header file: n/a

Returns the user ID (UID) of the running program.

This function returns the username that the program is running as. In most modern Unix programs other functions are used such as getlogin(), getpwnam() or getpwuid(). Refer to the Dictionary getlogin() for information about porting cuserid() to Windows.