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

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2017-04-10 17:21 GMT+02:00 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.

I'm not seeing it in any of these trees:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git
https://github.com/mkerrisk/man-pages

Some secret repo? ;)

Marcin
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