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Re: Cant fg a suspended su (4.1.0-dev-7)

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From: Peter Whaite <peta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Philippe Troin <phil@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Cant fg a suspended su (4.1.0-dev-7)
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 13:23:33 -0500
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Philippe Troin said:
> 
> Mrm, that's not GNU su. Or it's a very heavily patched version of GNU
> su. I've check shellutils 2.0 and it does a straight exec(), and does
> not leave a parent process like seen above...

Well thats strange.  We have (RedHat 7.1)

% rpm -q -f /bin/su
sh-utils-2.0-13
% rpm --verify -f /bin/su
%

On a RedHat 7.2 system we have sh-utils-2.0.11-5 and su doesnt exec
itself away there either.

> Peter, can you confirm that this patch makes zsh perform as expected
> with your su?

Yes it does work.
--
peta

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Cant fg a suspended su (4.1.0-dev-7)
  - From: Peter Stephenson
- Re: Cant fg a suspended su (4.1.0-dev-7)
  - From: Philippe Troin

References:
- Re: Cant fg a suspended su (4.1.0-dev-7)
  - From: Philippe Troin

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