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diff --git a/doc/posix-umask.html b/doc/posix-umask.html index 4ee310d..0d89e58 100644 --- a/doc/posix-umask.html +++ b/doc/posix-umask.html @@ -48,21 +48,25 @@ specification for a <tt>umask</tt> external utility</a>. <h2> Notes </h2> <ul> - <li> <tt>posix-umask</tt> is only available when execline has been configured -with the <tt>--enable-pedantic-posix</tt> option, and in this case, the -<a href="umask.html">cd</a> binary is a symbolic link to it. </li> + <li> When execline has been configured +with the <tt>--enable-pedantic-posix</tt> option, the <tt>umask</tt> +command is a symbolic link to it. So scripts calling <tt>umask</tt> +will use <tt>posix-umask</tt>. When this configuration option has not +been given, <tt>umask</tt> is a symbolic link to +<a href="execline-umask.html">execline-umask</a>. </li> <li> <tt>posix-umask</tt> fully conforms to the <a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/umask.html">POSIX specification</a>. When <em>prog...</em> is not empty, the behaviour of a <tt>umask</tt> utility is not specified by POSIX, so <tt>posix-umask</tt> extends the spec to be actually useful and usable in an execline program with the same -interface as the regular execline <a href="umask.html">umask</a> command. </li> +interface as the regular execline <a href="execline-umask.html">umask</a> command. </li> <li> Nobody ever executes or needs the external version (i.e. not a shell -builtin) of the POSIX <tt>umask</tt> command. Compared to the regular execline -<a href="umask.html">umask</a>, <tt>posix-umask</tt> is uselessly bloated and slow. -The only reason it exists is that some distributions refuse to package -execline correctly unless it is strictly POSIX-compliant; the -<tt>--enable-pedantic-posix</tt> configure option is there to appease them. </li> +builtin) of the POSIX <tt>umask</tt> command. Compared to execline's regular <tt>umask</tt> +binary, <a href="execline-umask.html">execline-umask</a>, <tt>posix-umask</tt> is +uselessly bloated and slow. The only reason it exists is that some +distributions refuse to package execline correctly unless it is strictly +POSIX-compliant; the <tt>--enable-pedantic-posix</tt> configure option is +there to satisfy their requirements. </li> </ul> </body> |