Re: [9fans] ape pwd.h not in sync ?

[C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>]

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in this case, i can't seen any point in providing pw_passwd
since no program that uses it (for anything non-trivial) could
work on Plan 9.   in fact, it's not even useful on unix systems:

	When  shadow(5)  passwords  are  enabled  (which  is  default  on  many
    GNU/Linux  installations)  the content of pw_passwd is usually not very
    useful. [because the contents are hidden in another file]

so: the program that refers to it won't be ported to plan 9,
and probably won't work on unix. best just to fix it by removing the reference.

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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] ape pwd.h not in sync ?
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:21:04 +0200
Message-ID: <228339633bc8110d58678382179f6644@proxima.alt.za>

> it won't work, so it's better to find that out when
> you compile the program rather than waste time compiling
> it only to fail when run.

It's an interesting philosophy, but it just bites you in a different
spot :-)

That said, it's obvious from the way the question was posed that there
is no single answer.

++L