From c859dfb59ed90826e6f3905ea749dcdc689d75c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:09:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] statx.2: Minor fixes after notes from David Howells Reported-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/statx.2 | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/man2/statx.2 b/man2/statx.2 index a6d28f252..1118023a9 100644 --- a/man2/statx.2 +++ b/man2/statx.2 @@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ which fields have been filled in. It should be noted that the kernel may return fields that weren't requested and may fail to return fields that were requested, depending on what the backing filesystem supports. +(Fields that are given values despite being unrequested can just be ignored.) In either case, .I stx_mask will not be equal