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
