sudo: failure handling could be more robust about mitogen HOT 2 CLOSED

Thanks for the report, it's a combo bug :)

• sudo didn't introduce long format option parsing until 2013, therefore older sudos will exit with a usage message
• sudo.py failed to notice the usage message or report the exit status
• sudo.py should have reported the full output, which would make it obvious this is a flags error

From sudo hg:

changeset:   8920:d13134819944
user:        Todd C. Miller <[email protected]>
date:        Thu Jul 18 16:51:56 2013 -0600
summary:     Add support for long options and fix inclusion of sudo_usage.h with

The crash should be gone in latest master, but keeping this open to track the remaining 2 issues.

from mitogen.

sudo didn't introduce long format option parsing until 2013

Amazon Linux is such a mess of ancient RHEL plus modern backports 😩

Thanks for the quick fix!

from mitogen.