Re: umask has no man page?
On 2014-11-02 04:06 +0100, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 11/01/2014 at 10:18 PM, Carl Fink wrote:
>
>> Surely a symbolic link could be set up for umask as well as the
>> others (bg, eval, fg, read, etc.)?
>
> One could, but I don't think I'd say it would be a good idea, and
> although the Debian bash maintainers might disagree with me I don't
> think the odds of their adding such symlinks are very good.
I have difficulty parsing that, but I don't think the bash maintainer
would be keen on adding these symlinks, since bash is not the only shell
and other shells might have different builtins. There was a short
discussion about this back in 2001[1].
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://bugs.debian.org/99532
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