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| -rw-r--r-- | PC/os2emx/README.os2emx | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx index 3473faa..7201908 100644 --- a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx +++ b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ distribution by changing to the Python 2.3 home directory and executing the REGRTEST.CMD batch file. The following tests are known to fail at this time: - test_mhlib (I don't know of any port of MH to OS/2); -- test_pwd (see "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" item 10, probably a bug in my code); +- test_pwd (see "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" item 10); - test_grp (as per test_pwd); - test_strftime (see "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" item 15); - test_strptime (see "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" item 22); @@ -494,6 +494,11 @@ grp.py: $ETC_GROUP (%ETC_GROUP%) $ETC/group (%ETC%/group) $PYTHONHOME/Etc/group (%PYTHONHOME%/Etc/group) +The ETC_PASSWD and ETC_GROUP environment variables are intended to allow +support for multiple passwd/grp files, where other applications may not +support as wide a variety of input variations (drive remappings, +separators etc). + Both modules support using either the ":" character (Unix standard) or ";" (OS/2, DOS, Windows standard) field separator character, and pwd.py implements the following drive letter conversions for the home_directory and @@ -501,9 +506,9 @@ shell fields (for the ":" separator only): $x -> x: x; -> x: -Example versions of passwd and group are in the Etc subdirectory. Note -that as of this release, this code fails the regression test. I'm looking -into why, and hope to have this fixed. +Example versions of passwd and group are in the Etc subdirectory. The +regression tests (test_pwd and test_grp) will fail if valid password and +group files cannot be found, but should pass otherwise. Be aware that Python's pwd & group modules are for reading password and group information only. |