<p>Possible "fix": <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/8e27b271181fd302239af64159275fd8433deea2" class="commit-link"><tt>8e27b27</tt></a>.<br>
But I guess it has many flaws, too.  And it's really not trivial to "properly" "fix" this:  if you only take root into account, it'll still fail the same when becoming another user than root (lest common, but totally valid).  If you try and play with <code>SUDO_UID</code>, it'll only work for sudo.  If… etc.</p>

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