On 01/16/2014 05:27 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>> As there's nothing we can do upstreams, I'm marking this as "not a bug"
>> and set the status to closed.
> 
> Why "nothing"?  And it *is* a bug, IMO.

It is not a bug because your suggestion is already implemented
in upstream coreutils but just not yet picked up by the Cygwin
distribution.

> Currently CYGWIN uses 8.15, which is not behind a lot.

8.15 is already 2 years old:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2012-01/msg00000.html

> They catch up from time to time to right to the current versions of the 
> tools...

... and when they do that the next time, then "id -z" will be available
on Cygwin, too.

Have a nice day,
Berny



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