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Re: very small passwd patch

From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 12:33:55 -0400
Subject: Re: very small passwd patch
References: <Pine.CYG.4.44.0209021109360.1260-100000@joshua.iocc.com>
Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:09:54AM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>--- Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:28:07AM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>> > I thought there was some mention of this already, but I guess
>> > not. This adds a note about passwd not working with Win9x/ME.
>>
>> Good idea but it doesn't help.  Since passwd is linked statically
>> against a symbol only available in NT, a 9x/Me user will never see
>> this help.  The system dialog will always win the race.
>>
>
>True, but it would at least help with people who use NT on another machine
>diagnose the problem. Right now it's completely hidden.
>Also the --help notes are eventually folded into the User's Guide.

How about a patch to dynamically load the specific function so that the
error message will work correctly?

cgf

References:
- Re: very small passwd patch
  - From: Joshua Daniel Franklin

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