Description
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patch to create spwdmodule.c

spwd is a thread-aware version of pwd module with
support of shadow passwords.

created and tested on
 SunOS zebra 5.5.1 Generic_103640-19 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-10
 Python 1.5 (#8, Aug 13 1998, 16:22:12)  [GCC 2.7.2] on sunos5
 gcc 2.7.2

Instructions
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1. cd $YourSrcTreeRoot/Python-1.5/Modules
2. gzip -dc | tar xvf -
3. cp pwdmodule.c   spwdmodule.c
4. patch spwdmodule.c <spwdmodule.patch
5. add line
       spwd spwdmodule.c -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS
  to your Setup.local file
6. cd ..; make; make install

Author
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Eugene V. Dvurechenski
[email protected]
Fri Aug 14 13:20:52 GMT 1998