Bug#748926: manpages-dev: umask(2) example unclear

2014-05-22 Thread wxcafe
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

Bug#748926: manpages-dev: umask(2) example unclear

2014-05-22 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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