bug#9594: 27.3 Numeric modes (File permissions): Special mode bits assume file is regular

[Paul Eggert]

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.

0001-doc-tidy-up-setuid-commentary.txt
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