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
