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
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
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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
