Re: [PATCH] stat.2: tweak description of AT_EMPTY_PATH

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Hello Marcin

On 04/01/2017 09:23 PM, Marcin Ślusarz wrote:
> 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

Thanks! Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael



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