On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 03:51:48PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > I assume you mean adding Hurd support to shellutils/fileutils. Well I > don't think that's appropriate. `su' is a totally different beast on > the Hurd, and much more powerful. BTW, keep in mind that you can't do > `su -c COMMAND' to execute COMMAND as root, I don't know if any debian > scripts use this.
Yes, some cron jobs use "su user -c" to execute cron jobs as special user. Everyone seems to agree that the hurd su should be renamed to something different. > `uptime' comes almost for free (it is a shell > script that calls `w -u'. `sync' is an almost trivial program, but > including it in fileutils would mean we lose the nice `argp' parsing. > I will ask Jim Meyering if it is possible to not install the programs > on the Hurd. Ok. Please ask him and keep me CC'ed. I have a patch ready to do this during the Debian packaging, but doing this upstream is IMHO more correct (that is, if the Hurd sync is really backward compatible). Thanks, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
