Re: removing "su" from coreutils [Re: Fwd: [PULL] su

[Eric Blake]

On 05/24/2012 07:21 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:

> I would like to remove su.c, if/when possible from coreutils.
> The last time I proposed that, the Hurd was mentioned as a
> reason not to, since they relied on the su from coreutils.

Cygwin is another platform that currently uses su from coreutils.
However, on cygwin, su is rather restricted in what it can do, and
already carries a cygwin-specific patch for hooking into Windows
mechanisms for switching privileges.  So it's no big loss if coreutils
drops su, cygwin will adapt (possibly by using util-linux, possibly by
forking the coreutils version with cygwin-specific patches into a
cygwin-specific fork).

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