crypt...

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:38:39PM +1000, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> I was wondering if (other than for someone to actually do it) there was some
> explicit reason for crypt to be seperate to cygwin?  Sort of makes
> satisfying SUSv2 unistd.h impossible...  I see its optional in SUSv3 ...
> Sure its simple to work arround, but it would be nice if it 'just worked'.

It was originally included to get passwords for 9x.  It doesn't fit into
Cygwin itself due to licensing constraints.  Therefore an extra library.

Corinna

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