Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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 AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: su - coreutils? References: <406C37A9 DOT 3030809 AT landheer DOT com> <20040401165235 DOT GF2598 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <406C7928 DOT 9070708 AT fangorn DOT ca> <20040402073643 DOT GI2598 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <406D6453 DOT 20104 AT fangorn DOT ca> <20040402141222 DOT GA14036 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <20040402160030 DOT GD1144 AT coc DOT bosbc DOT com> <406DAD0C DOT 6090402 AT fangorn DOT ca> <4172D969 DOT 8040107 AT x-ray DOT at> <20041018105734 DOT GB26101 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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/