From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: man-pages-linux needs case sensitive directories
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:22:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+ykRy3lOrAwPGdv@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0e730b68-f661-ba13-9020-acce69932067@Shaw.ca>
On Feb 15 00:11, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Linux man pages 6.03 has been released.
> I realized that some of the man pages are case sensitive e.g. _[Ee]xit.2,
> {NAN,nan}.3, perhaps others.
> I took care of my own system using commands like below, but would appreciate
> advice on whether there is any better portable or Cygwin specific approach,
> and what are the opinions on the best way to handle this in the cygport for
> download and install?
> Is this supported by Cygwin on Windows 10 versions >= [20]18-03 with the
> directory attribute set, are there likely to be any problems with git, or in
> general with POSIX<->Windows file names?
>
> $ cd /usr/share/man/linux/
> $ for s in man?; do fsutil file setCaseSensitiveInfo $s; done
You can do this in Cygwin with the chattr(1) tool, see chattr --help.
The hint "WSL must be installed" appears to be outdated, at least on
Windows 11. There are two approaches for case-sensitivity, see
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitivedirs
However, as part of the distro, the package must not rely on
case-sensitivity. We have to assume that most users are using Windows
in default settings. And we still support Windows versions prior to
Windows 10 1803. But even then, I encountered serious trouble with
case-sensitive directories on remote shares, see
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/3885
so you'd get into trouble if the Cygwin installation is on a share.
For colliding man pages, what you can do is to append a character to
the man page file, so you can install both. For instance:
exit.2
Exit.2a
nan.3
NAN.3a
Kind of like that.
Corinna
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2023-02-15 7:11 Brian Inglis
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2023-02-16 5:55 ` Brian Inglis
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