From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 118782 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 2016 06:52:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 118069 invoked by uid 89); 11 Mar 2016 06:52:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:942, umbrella, speak, news X-HELO: plane.gmane.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 06:52:32 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aeGvz-0002T1-Jo for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:52:27 +0100 Received: from 76-217-5-154.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net ([76.217.5.154]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:52:27 +0100 Received: from mark by 76-217-5-154.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:52:27 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Mark Geisert Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.25-1 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 06:52:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-03/txt/msg00144.txt.bz2 Eric Blake writes: [...a bunch of good news elided...] > If you missed the note in 8.23-2, there is no longer an 'su' program in > coreutils; this is an upstream decision (many Linux distros are getting > su from other packages, and even though cygwin's su had come from > coreutils, it was heavily patched and doesn't work as smoothly as on > Linux). I'm still debating whether it is worth trying to capture the > last release of coreutils' su, as patched to work on cygwin, for > distribution as an independent package; help would be appreciated from > anyone else interested in this task. I can't answer to whether it's worth saving :-) but if it is, I think I can help. Has it diverged enough into Windows-isms that it could fit under the cygutils umbrella? Either there or as a separate su package works for me. Anybody out there using 'su'? Speak now, or forever hold the pieces. ..mark -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple