On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:40 PM, wxcafe <wxc...@wxcafe.net> wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.65-1 > Severity: minor > > Dear Maintainer, > > the man page for umask(2) is a bit unclear, in that it contains the > following line : > 0666 & ~022 = 0644; i.e., rw-r--r-- > that is slightly misleading (took me ~6 hours to understand where the problem > was coming from) for anyone who doesn't use ~ as NOT. > > Suggested fix : replace that line with something like > 0666 !& 022 = 0644; since 110 110 110 NAND 000 010 010 = 110 100 > 100; i.e., rw-r--r--
But ~ *is* the C bitwise-NOT operator. So I don't understand this piece: "for anyone who doesn't use ~ as NOT"... Thus, the existing text seems fine to me. Cheers, Michael > -- System Information: > Debian Release: jessie/sid > APT prefers testing-updates > APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: > LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: > ii manpages 3.65-1 > > manpages-dev recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests: > ii man-db [man-browser] 2.6.7.1-1 > > -- no debconf information > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
