You're probably right, Jonathan. "Su" is so common that it easy to make that error. After looking at the current POSIX list, I did not find it. Thank you for pointing that out.
Be well! T.J. On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard < j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > T.J. Duchene: > >> If someone can do it better, and still keep it compatible with POSIX, >> more power to them. >> > > This is not the first place where someone has randomly thrown POSIX into > the discussion. "su" is outwith the scope of the POSIX standard. It's in > the SVID, but to my knowledge "su" never made into POSIX. The SUS mentions > it in passing under setuid() as a non-conformant application. > >
