Re: Further adventures in the land of 64-bit linux

Anders Qvist <[email protected]> writes:

> Surprising noone in particular, test_pwd broke in the same way.

Fixed in CVS as well.

>   $4 = 0x1202faec0 "+"
> 
> It's the "NIS-thingie" in /etc/passwd that is the culprit. We may want
> to handle that some way?

It seems that this is both a misconfiguration of your system, and a
bug of it:
- If you use NIS, the "+" entry should transparently resolved to get
  list all users known to the system.
- If you don't use NIS, the "+" entry should not be present.
- If a field is ommitted in /etc/passwd, getpwent(3) should return
  "", not NULL, for this field.

So I think processing it by returning those fields as None (as done in
previous Python versions) should be sufficient.

Regards,
Martin