From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:39:48 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: clarify that stat -f implies -L (follows symlinks)
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doc: clarify that stat -f implies -L (follows symlinks)

* doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation). Since there is
no lstatfs, document that -L is implicit with -f.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 6771da949b..72ee450d3b 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -10630,6 +10630,7 @@ Without it, @command{stat} acts on any symbolic link argument directly.
 @cindex file systems
 Report information about the file systems where the given files are located
 instead of information about the files themselves.
+This option implies the @option{-L} option.
 
 @item -c
 @itemx --format=@var{format}