svn commit: r216197 - head/usr.bin/stat
Doug Barton
dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sun Dec 5 09:35:08 UTC 2010
Author: dougb
Date: Sun Dec 5 09:35:07 2010
New Revision: 216197
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/216197
Log:
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.
Modified:
head/usr.bin/stat/stat.1
Modified: head/usr.bin/stat/stat.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/stat/stat.1 Sun Dec 5 09:33:04 2010 (r216196)
+++ head/usr.bin/stat/stat.1 Sun Dec 5 09:35:07 2010 (r216197)
@@ -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
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