statx.2: srcfix: FIXME

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2017-04-25 13:03:27 +02:00
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@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ may refer to any type of file, not just a directory.
(The
.B AT_EMPTY_PATH
flag described below provides similar functionality.)
.\" FIXME
.\" It appears that there are two different ways of doing the same thing:
.\" specifying the file to be stat'ed via a file descriptor.
.\" Either, we specify 'pathname' as NULL, or we specify 'pathname'
.\" as an empty string and include the AT_EMPTY_PATH flag. What's
.\" the rationale for having two ways of doing this?
.PP
.I flags
can be used to influence a pathname-based lookup.