Re: su - coreutils?

2004-10-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 18 17:19, Brian Dessent wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I don't think it's necessary. Since sync is a noop, it doesn't hurt to call it. I would go a step further. Just omit sync from the Cygwin release of coreutils. Perhaps it should be linked to /bin/true on the off chance

Re: su - coreutils?

2004-10-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:33:09AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 18 17:19, Brian Dessent wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I don't think it's necessary. Since sync is a noop, it doesn't hurt to call it. I would go a step further. Just omit sync from the Cygwin release of

Re: su - coreutils?

2004-10-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 17 22:43, Reini Urban wrote: I've taken Mark's coreutils patches, the proposed fileutils patches, and some of Bas latest patches (ignore errors) and tried to build a package. Builds fine, just some fixes for setuid processing in make install need to be done. (for su)

Re: su - coreutils?

2004-10-18 Thread Reini Urban
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Oct 17 22:43, Reini Urban wrote: I've taken Mark's coreutils patches, the proposed fileutils patches, and some of Bas latest patches (ignore errors) and tried to build a package. Builds fine, just some fixes for setuid processing in make install need to be done. (for

Re: su - coreutils?

2004-10-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 18 14:49, Reini Urban wrote: Corinna Vinschen schrieb: I would omit su from coreutils. There's no gain to support it in a windows environment. The functionality is a subset of what a local sshd installation allows, but with more security implications. su could check for a local

Re: su - coreutils?

2004-10-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I don't think it's necessary. Since sync is a noop, it doesn't hurt to call it. I would go a step further. Just omit sync from the Cygwin release of coreutils. Perhaps it should be linked to /bin/true on the off chance that if some script wants to call the sync

su - coreutils?

2004-10-17 Thread Reini Urban
I've taken Mark's coreutils patches, the proposed fileutils patches, and some of Bas latest patches (ignore errors) and tried to build a package. Builds fine, just some fixes for setuid processing in make install need to be done. (for su) http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/coreutils/ But