Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41745DAB.F33CEF55@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:19:55 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: su - coreutils? References: <406C37A9.3030809@landheer.com> <20040401165235.GF2598@cygbert.vinschen.de> <406C7928.9070708@fangorn.ca> <20040402073643.GI2598@cygbert.vinschen.de> <406D6453.20104@fangorn.ca> <20040402141222.GA14036@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20040402160030.GD1144@coc.bosbc.com> <406DAD0C.6090402@fangorn.ca> <4172D969.8040107@x-ray.at> <20041018105734.GB26101@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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 command, it will continue to work. If a symlink is used it would even go a bit further to underline the fact that it's a no-op if someone lists it with ls -l - "this always returns true, it does nothing." Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/