su - coreutils?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 18 17:19, Brian Dessent wrote:
> 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."

That sounds like a good idea to me.

Corinna

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