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Re: su - coreutils?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:33:09 +0200
- Subject: Re: su - coreutils?
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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 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."
That sounds like a good idea to me.
Corinna
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