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stat.2: Tweak description of AT_EMPTY_PATH 

Currently it says when dirfd is AT_FDCWD it can be something
other than directory, which doesn't make much sense. Just swap
the order of sentences.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Ślusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Marcin Ślusarz 2017-04-01 21:23:42 +02:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -506,14 +506,14 @@ is an empty string, operate on the file referred to by
.BR open (2)
.B O_PATH
flag).
In this case,
.I dirfd
can refer to any type of file, not just a directory.
If
.I dirfd
is
.BR AT_FDCWD ,
the call operates on the current working directory.
In this case,
.I dirfd
can refer to any type of file, not just a directory.
This flag is Linux-specific; define
.B _GNU_SOURCE
.\" Before glibc 2.16, defining _ATFILE_SOURCE sufficed