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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: should su retain ${DISPLAY} 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Apr 95 18:52:42 +0200."
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Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 17:53:54 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > > Your right, it should completely reset the environment as if it was a fre
sh
> > > login.  Speaking of su, why the hell doesnt FreeBSD's su support -c cmd l
ike
> > > every other su on the planet?
> > 
> > Hmmmm.  Therein lies a mystery!
> > 
> > I believe we lost this in the 1.x transition! :-(
> 
> We've never had it.  The word `every' in the above sentence must be
> `every second'.

Actually, yes, we have had it.. :-) Barry Morris (bsm@freebsd.org) did
indeed hack it into su back in the 1.x days..

					Jordan