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[coreutils] [PATCH] doc: document that stat -f implies -L (follows symli


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: [coreutils] [PATCH] doc: document that stat -f implies -L (follows symlinks)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:30:53 +0100
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I guess one could use the parent dir of a symlink
if -L is not specified? but that seems a bit hacky.
Therefore this just documents the behavior.

commit cb0c8ba8b2315cd0f896e79de6a6350268728949
Author: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Aug 27 08:39:48 2010 +0100

    doc: document that stat -f implies -L (follows symlinks)

    * doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation). Since there is
    no lstatfs, document that -L is implicit with -f.

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index d8e541c..38ef2b8 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -10630,6 +10630,7 @@ Without it, @command{stat} acts on any symbolic link 
argument directly.
 @cindex file systems
 Report information about the file systems where the given files are located
 instead of information about the files themselves.
+This option implies the @option{-L} option.

 @item -c
 @itemx --format=@var{format}



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