I don't think the pax.1 manual needs to refer to directory permissions
using the implementation details of mode_t.


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@@ -553,13 +553,8 @@ and extract the specified
 .Ar file
 operands.
 If any intermediate directories are needed in order to extract an archive
-member, these directories will be created as if
-.Xr mkdir 2
-was called with the bitwise OR of
-.Dv S_IRWXU , S_IRWXG ,
-and
-.Dv S_IRWXO
-as the mode argument.
+member, these directories will be created with read, write, and search
+permissions for the owner, group, and others.
 When the selected archive format supports the specification of linked
 files and these files cannot be linked while the archive is being extracted,
 .Nm