Currently it says when dirfd is AT_FDCWD it can be something other than directory, which doesn't make much sense. Just swap the order of sentences. Signed-off-by: Marcin Ślusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx> --- man2/stat.2 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/stat.2 b/man2/stat.2 index 1d838a9..7ec2593 100644 --- a/man2/stat.2 +++ b/man2/stat.2 @@ -506,14 +506,14 @@ is an empty string, operate on the file referred to by .BR open (2) .B O_PATH flag). +In this case, +.I dirfd +can refer to any type of file, not just a directory. If .I dirfd is .BR AT_FDCWD , the call operates on the current working directory. -In this case, -.I dirfd -can refer to any type of file, not just a directory. This flag is Linux-specific; define .B _GNU_SOURCE .\" Before glibc 2.16, defining _ATFILE_SOURCE sufficed -- 2.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
