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diff --git a/extension/readdir.3am b/extension/readdir.3am index 9cec8606..e4f24dff 100644 --- a/extension/readdir.3am +++ b/extension/readdir.3am @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH READDIR 3am "Feb 02 2018" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules" +.TH READDIR 3am "Mar 17 2019" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules" .SH NAME readdir \- directory input parser for gawk .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -34,24 +34,14 @@ for a FIFO, .B l for a symbolic link, .B s -for a socket, and -.B u -(unknown) for anything else. +for a socket. .PP -On systems without the file type information, the third field is always +On systems without the file type information, the extension falls back +to calling +.IR stat (2), +in order to provide the information. +Thus the third field should never be .BR u . -.SH NOTES -On GNU/Linux systems, there are filesystems that don't support the -.B d_type -entry (see -.IR readdir (3)), -and so the file type is always -.BR u . -You can use the -.I filefuncs -extension to call -.I stat() -in order to get correct type information. .\" .SH BUGS .SH EXAMPLE .ft CW @@ -81,7 +71,7 @@ BEGIN { FS = "/" } Arnold Robbins, .BR arnold@skeeve.com . .SH COPYING PERMISSIONS -Copyright \(co 2012, 2013, 2018, +Copyright \(co 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .PP Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of |