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author | dougb <dougb@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-12-05 09:35:07 +0000 |
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committer | dougb <dougb@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-12-05 09:35:07 +0000 |
commit | 1fc00c1bd7e0da3183e7e3bbede72568201b7cbe (patch) | |
tree | d4ce560da576d369e2bd397fdc4afd62e6c9b7a6 /usr.bin/stat | |
parent | 4bc6f6479f031b4131c03bf9ed4c18837fda8307 (diff) | |
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Add my own documentation for the change in our r216196, aka NetBSD's 1.18
For -L if stat(2) fails, fall back to lstat(2).
.Dd purposely not bumped because more changes are coming.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/stat/stat.1 b/usr.bin/stat/stat.1 index 8bbdda4..0ae0b7c 100644 --- a/usr.bin/stat/stat.1 +++ b/usr.bin/stat/stat.1 @@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ will refer to the target of if file is a symbolic link, and not to .Ar file itself. +If the link is broken or the target does not exist, +fall back on +.Xr lstat 2 +and report information about the link. .It Fl n Do not force a newline to appear at the end of each piece of output. .It Fl q |