* src/dired.c (Fsystem_users): Doc fix.

* etc/NEWS: Mention system-users, system-groups.

3 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 03ec5405803..2ac4b187381 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp.
 
 * Changes in Emacs 24.2
 
+** New functions `system-users', `system-groups' return lists of the user
+name, group names known to the system (where possible).
+
 ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable
 `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about which bzr revision was used.
 
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index bcb2edee96f..8c0dcc9c044 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-04-17  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * dired.c (Fsystem_users): Doc fix.
+
 2012-04-17  Dmitry Antipov  <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
 
         * dired.c (Fsystem_users, Fsystem_groups): New functions.  (Bug#7900)
diff --git a/src/dired.c b/src/dired.c
index 2c634b9ca6f..eeae59d2801 100644
--- a/src/dired.c
+++ b/src/dired.c
@@ -1018,7 +1018,8 @@ Comparison is in lexicographic order and case is significant.  */)
 
 DEFUN ("system-users", Fsystem_users, Ssystem_users, 0, 0, 0,
        doc: /* Return a list of user names currently registered in the system.
-The value may be nil if not supported on this platform.  */)
+If we don't know how to determine that on this platform, just
+return a list with one element, taken from `user-real-login-name'.  */)
      (void)
 {
   Lisp_Object users = Qnil;