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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:19:55 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: su - coreutils?
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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

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