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From:	Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Feb 13 12:03, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2023-02-13 10:43, ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin writes:
> > > On Feb 12 22:03, Cygwin dash Co-Maintainer wrote:
> > > > The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
> > > > 
> > > > * dash        0.5.12-2
> > > > 
> > > > This package is being upgraded to current as the previous release
> > > > breaks existing function that may be relied on by some scripts.
> > > > This release has been rebuilt disabling libc fnmatch and glob as
> > > > Cygwin/winsup/newlib do not support locale dependent named character
> > > > classes like glibc.
> 
> > > Can you give me an example?  I'm a bit puzzled because fnmatch as well
> > > as glob in Cygwin support native characters.
> 
> But not locale dependent named character classes like regexp in paths.

I checked the dash code of curent dash git, and while its internal glob
implementation supports character classes, they are no localized, using
standard singlebyte functions isalnum, isalpha, etc. under the hood.

So, yeah, what you say further down this mail... looks like dash
supports locale dependent character classes only with glibc.

> > AFAIU, the issue was with locale dependent character classes, not
> > characters. Andrey specifically mentioned [[:space:]] in the original
> > bugreport.
> 
> Specifically support in fnmatch and glob, now updated in glibc, and their
> use in dash for parameter expansion in place of (gnulib?) regexp support.
> 
> > > So how do we fix in Cygwin without pulling in GLibc code?
> 
> It's fixed in release 2 which disables 0.5.12 changed default (using
> [Cygwin/winsup/newlib] libc fnmatch and glob, without testing
> functionality), and goes back to using its own previous default (gnulib?)
> regexp code for parameter expansion which supports locale dependent named
> character classes.
> 
> As glibc "recently" fixed their fnmatch and glob to support locale dependent
> named character classes like [[:blank:]], dash decided to use those in
> parameter expansions for consistency, but not exactly clearly documented,
> although they added config options to enable/disable each of libc
> fnmatch/glob.
> 
> Cygwin bash parameter expansion also supports locale dependent named
> character classes.
> 
> 	$ info bash pattern
> 	$ info sed classes

These info pages are mostly target-system independent.  There's no
guarantee that this works in a Cygwin bash or sed.

Either way, I don't care much for what a certain application provides by
itself.  I'm talking about our libc, that is Cygwin, and what it
provides to processes calling its implementations of regcomp/regexec,
glob and fnmatch.

All these functions have been taken from FreeBSD and all three suffer
shortcomings:

- regcomp/regexec supports POSIX named character classes, collating
  symbols, and equivalence class expressions, but all of them only work
  for ASCII chars.

- fnmatch and glob support neither of named character classes,
  collating symbols, and equivalence class expressions.

I checked the upstream code in FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD and none of
these functions are improved to support locales (regcomp) or any of
the character classes stuff (fnmatch/glob).

So, if we want to add this support to Cygwin (and thus, to all
applications calling the libc implementation of these functions),
quite a bit of work is required.

Being able to fetch the implementation from some other source
would reduce the effort enourmously :}


Corinna

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