Re: cygwin-doc: please add acl description

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.