diff --git a/bin/pax/pax.1 b/bin/pax/pax.1
index 777780b04dd..80fcb212984 100644
--- a/bin/pax/pax.1
+++ b/bin/pax/pax.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: pax.1,v 1.79 2024/04/17 15:48:44 jca Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: pax.1,v 1.80 2024/11/30 06:59:12 jmc Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: pax.1,v 1.3 1995/03/21 09:07:37 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1992 Keith Muller.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"	@(#)pax.1	8.4 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: April 17 2024 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 30 2024 $
 .Dt PAX 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -553,13 +553,10 @@ 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,
+as modified by the current
+.Xr umask 2 .
 When the selected archive format supports the specification of linked
 files and these files cannot be linked while the archive is being extracted,
 .Nm