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.--- Begin Message ---
> 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
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