From 7901c9c3cd190abd98864987f4a47c27befd6a86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 13:11:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] stat.2: Tighten wording: use 'mode bit' rather than 'permission bit' According to POSIX, the the 9 UGO*RWX bits are permissions, and 'mode' is used to refer to collectively to those bits plus sticky, set-UID, and set_GID bits. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/stat.2 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/stat.2 b/man2/stat.2 index a227c55d6..79d8ff7ba 100644 --- a/man2/stat.2 +++ b/man2/stat.2 @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ with a value of 500 or greater, or with a value of 200112L or greater. .PP The following mask values are defined for -the file permissions component of the +the file mode component of the .I st_mode field: .in +4n @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ field of the structure. POSIX.1-2008 tightens the specification, requiring .BR lstat () -to return valid information in all fields except the permission bits in +to return valid information in all fields except the mode bits in .IR st_mode . Use of the