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stat.2: Minor rewording: eliminate clumsy use of "stat" as a verb 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" 2007-06-08 mtk: Added example program
.\" 2007-07-05 mtk: Added details on underlying system call interfaces
.\"
.TH STAT 2 2014-02-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH STAT 2 2014-03-09 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
stat, fstat, lstat, fstatat \- get file status
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.ad
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
These functions return information about a file.
These functions return information about a file, in the buffer pointed to by
.IR stat .
No permissions are required on the file itself, but\(emin the case of
.BR stat (),
.BR fstatat (),
@ -105,10 +106,8 @@ that lead to the file.
.BR stat ()
and
.BR fstatat ()
stat the file pointed to by
.I pathname
and fills in
.IR buf ;
retrieve information about the file pointed to by
.IR pathname ;
the differences for
.BR fstatat ()
are described below.
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.BR stat (),
except that if
.I pathname
is a symbolic link, then the link itself is stat-ed,
is a symbolic link, then it returns information about the link itself,
not the file that it refers to.
.BR fstat ()
is identical to
.BR stat (),
except that the file to be stat-ed is specified by the file descriptor
except that the file about which informat is to be retrieved
is specified by the file descriptor
.IR fd .
.PP
All of these system calls return a