GNU bug report logs - #9594
doc: expand 27.3 Numeric modes (File permissions)

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Message #24 received at 9594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Philippe Cloutier <chealer <at> gmail.com>,
 Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>, 9594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9594: 27.3 Numeric modes (File permissions): Special mode
 bits assume file is regular
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 11:04:24 -0700

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Philippe Cloutier wrote:

> Please clarify why this was closed.

It was closed primarily because no specific wording fix was proposed.

I looked at the bug report again, and don't agree that the old wording was wrong 
or even misleading. It's merely a summary table, there's a lot of explanatory 
text before the table, and we shouldn't clutter the table with another copy of 
the explanation. That being said, the explanatory text can be improved and the 
summary table can be abbreviated even further by removing the phrase "on 
execution" which seems to be the primary point of the original bug report. I 
installed the attached.

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