Subject: bug#5072: 23.1.50; Eshell fail with sudo command

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:25:01 -0500

> I've added recently an eshell implementation for su and sudo, using
> Tramp. This requires to run bash, indeed.

What is the advantage?

> In order to keep your original behaviour, you shall call
> ,----
> | *sudo emerge -av somepackage
> `----

Couldn't your code fail more gracefully and transparently fallback on
running the bare `sudo'?

        Stefan