Re: AW: umask.1p: Can we add a table for octal and symbolic notation?

[Utkarsh Singh <utkarsh190601@gmail.com>]

On 2021-04-16, 15:46 +0000, Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> i did no see any answer. 
>
> How is maintaining the posix-pages organized ? 

There some misunderstanding from my side on how POSIX manual pages are
'distributed' with Linux man-page project.  Here is message posted on
this mailing list some time ago.

Message from Michael Kerrisk on Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:56:48 +0100:

> In 2004, the IEEE and The Open Group decided to grant permission to the 
> Linux man-pages project to distribute parts of the then-current version
> of POSIX.1 in manual page format. That decision provided an extremely
> valuable resource for Linux programmers who wanted to write applications
> that are portable across UNIX systems. Evidence of that value has been
> demonstrated by regular requests in the last few years that the project
> should update its copy of the POSIX manual pages to the latest
> version provided by The Austin Group (the umbrella group that works
> on development of the POSIX.1 standard).

This means that Linux man-page project only distribute standards in
forms accessible offline using man command and doesn't edit them.

Confusion aside, you can always download Wikipedia pages or in fact any
HTML pages using wget or curl command.  For ex:

$ wget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask

You can use a graphical browser like Firefox or a text browser like lynx
to view them.  For ex:

$ lynx Umask.html

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Utkarsh Singh
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