On 2025-11-16 14:09, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Am 16.11.2025 um 21:57 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps:
On 2025-11-16 12:17, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2025-11-16 02:46, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Please add manual page acl(5) to package cygwin-doc:
acl(5): Access Control Lists - Linux man page <https://linux.die.net/man/5/acl>
Discussed previously with Alex on man-pages(-linux), and as they are part of
a package, considered them out of scope as they would be installed if the
package was installed.
Discussed with Corinna on patches and she considered the Linux ACL pages not fit
^W
cygwin/-apps Subject: ...acl man pages 2025-03-31+
Listed all acl-related man pages from sources previously listed below.
ITP on apps but received no responses => no interest or demand!
for purpose on Cygwin, and suggested the BSD acl man-pages were a better fit.
They are not available except as part of a *BSD man-pages package, some of
which I install locally, but has not been requested by anyone else until now.
Is there much interest out there for other distro man pages, or even Linux,
which we currently package?
I have previously downloaded and installed these for various interests:
-rw-r--r-- 1 363K Nov 12 2022 /home/BWI/src/man/acl-2.3.2.tar.xz # Linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 98M Dec 7 2017 /home/BWI/src/man/CentOS_7.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 6.9M Dec 7 2017 /home/BWI/src/man/Darwin_7.0.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 235M Dec 7 2017 /home/BWI/src/man/Debian_8.1.0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 12M Dec 7 2017 /home/BWI/src/man/FreeBSD_12.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 15M Mar 9 2025 /home/BWI/src/man/FreeBSD_15.0.tgz # ACL...
-rw-r--r-- 1 222M Dec 7 2017 /home/BWI/src/man/FreeBSD_Ports_11.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 15M Dec 7 2017 /home/BWI/src/man/HP-UX_11.22.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 1.6M Apr 30 2018 /home/BWI/src/man/Linux_4.16.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 39M Dec 7 2017 /home/BWI/src/man/NetBSD_7.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 9.6M Dec 7 2017 /home/BWI/src/man/OpenBSD_6.2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 13M Mar 2 2010 /home/BWI/src/man/OpenSolaris_2010.03.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 37M Dec 7 2017 /home/BWI/src/man/Red_Hat_Linux_i386_9.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 12M Dec 7 2017 /home/BWI/src/man/SunOS_5.10.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 58M Dec 7 2017 /home/BWI/src/man/SuSE_Linux_i386_11.3.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 4.4M Dec 7 2017 /home/BWI/src/man/X11_R7.4.tar.gz
Linux is up to date:
-rw-r--r-- 1 12M Nov 13 07:02 man-pages-linux-6.16-1-noarch.tar.xz
Everyone is waiting to see if Austin group will release POSIX 2025!
-rw-r--r-- 1 2.6M Apr 12 2021 man-pages-posix-2017a-1.tar.xz
Well, the point is: get/setfacl man pages are part of cygwin-doc but the
description of how acls work and particularly of how default acls work in these
is lousy at best;
acl(5) has a much better description but is not part of any cygwin package right
now.
Please have a look at previous posts about relevant distro man pages suggested
by Corinna in Cygwin, acl related contents listed by me on Cygwin-Apps, suggest
which man pages may best meet your needs, then others may chime in, or you may
download and install them yourself - I use /proc/cygdrive/c/usr/local/share/man/
FYI.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
