On 11/02/2014 at 10:12 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 9:35 PM, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> > wrote: > >> On 11/02/2014 at 03:23 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >>> Hmm. What do I get when I try to do a man umask? >>> >>> BASH_BUILTINS (1) >>> >>> I wonder why. I have a memory of doing something like installing >>> a manpages package, but I'm not sure that was what did the trick, >>> or it might have been mingw I did that on. >> >> Could you check with dlocate or similar to figure out where that >> came from? > > Hmm. Oh. This is not going to be generally useful, at all. > > man /usr/share/man/ja/man1/builtins.1.gz > > brings the page up for me. Ah. That's provided by manpages-ja, which I do not have installed. (Translations are also in manpages-es-extra and manpages-zh, under appropriate language-specific paths.) I do get something from 'man builtins', but it's that same bash-builtins(7) page as before. That's due to a symlink from the alternatives system, presumably installed alongside bash-builtins.7.gz itself. > env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man umask > > brings up the manual page from section 2, and > > env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man 7 umask > > doesn't bring up anything here. Similarly here, in both cases. >> The closest man page I have to that is bash-builtins(7), which >> comes with the bash package, but is not the same as >> bash_builtins(1) - and does not have an umask(anything) symlink. > > Seems to be done, not by symlink, but in the man db. What leads you to that conclusion? AFAIK, if 'man xyz' brings up a man page from section 1, then there is an xyz.1 or xyz.1.gz somewhere in the manual search paths (which I think are defined in /etc/manpath.config). Since 'man umask' brings up 'BASH_BUILTINS(1)' for you, there must be a umask.1 or umask.1.gz somewhere, which presumably either is a copy of or is a symlink to builtins.1.gz. If that doesn't follow, then there must be something about manual structure which I don't even know I don't understand. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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