Re: future of su

2012-05-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-05-29 16:02, Eric Blake wrote: So now the question is whether the util-linux maintainer is willing to turn on the building of su (can that version even be made to work in cygwin?) or whether I should fork su and its cygwin-specific patches out of the coreutils package and instead into its

Re: future of su

2012-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/29/2012 02:58 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 29.05.2012 17:37, schrieb Eric Blake: >> Upstream coreutils is considering completely dropping su, in favor of >> having util-linux provide su across all GNU/Linux distros. Right now, >> cygwin's su.exe comes from coreutils, but with a cygwin-specif

Re: future of su

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 29.05.2012 17:37, schrieb Eric Blake: Upstream coreutils is considering completely dropping su, in favor of having util-linux provide su across all GNU/Linux distros. Right now, cygwin's su.exe comes from coreutils, but with a cygwin-specific patch, and it still doesn't do quite what users ar

Re: future of su

2012-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 29 09:37, Eric Blake wrote: > Upstream coreutils is considering completely dropping su, in favor of > having util-linux provide su across all GNU/Linux distros. Right now, > cygwin's su.exe comes from coreutils, but with a cygwin-specific patch, > and it still doesn't do quite what users ar

future of su

2012-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
Upstream coreutils is considering completely dropping su, in favor of having util-linux provide su across all GNU/Linux distros. Right now, cygwin's su.exe comes from coreutils, but with a cygwin-specific patch, and it still doesn't do quite what users are used to from a Linux perspective. Is it