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stat.2: Minor fixes 

Reported-by: Andreas Grünbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-04-21 16:50:34 +02:00
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@ -293,13 +293,24 @@ The field
is changed by writing or by setting inode information
(i.e., owner, group, link count, mode, etc.).
.PP
The following mask values are defined for the file type component of the
POSIX refers to the
.I st_mode
bits corresponding to the mask
.B S_IFMT
(see below) as the
.IR "file type" ,
the 12 bits corresponding to the mask 07777 as the
.IR "file mode bits"
and the least significant 9 bits (0777) as the
.IR "file permission bits" .
.PP
The following mask values are defined for the file type of the
.I st_mode
field:
.in +4n
.TS
lB l l.
S_IFMT 0170000 bit mask for the file type bit fields
S_IFMT 0170000 bit mask for the file type bit field
S_IFSOCK 0140000 socket
S_IFLNK 0120000 symbolic link
@ -424,14 +435,6 @@ S_IWOTH 00002 others have write permission
S_IXOTH 00001 others have execute permission
.TE
.in
.PP
POSIX refers to the 12
.I st_mode
bits corresponding to the mask 07777 as the
.IR "file mode bits"
and the least significant 9 bits (00777)
as the
.IR "file permission bits" .
.P
The set-group-ID bit
.RB ( S_ISGID )
@ -650,7 +653,7 @@ According to POSIX.1-2001,
.BR lstat ()
on a symbolic link need return valid information only in the
.I st_size
field and the file-type component of the
field and the file type of the
.IR st_mode
field of the
.IR stat