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

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 04/12/2017 08:35 PM, Marcin Ślusarz wrote:
> 2017-04-10 17:21 GMT+02:00 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:
>> 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-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
>>> ---
>>>  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? ;)

No, I just hadn't pushed yet. Should be visible now.

Cheers,

Michael

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