update OS/2 EMX port notes
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 @@
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 @@
$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 @@
$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.