From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:25:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add a comment
X-Git-Tag: v6.0~35
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=407ff38d9405d5071a2b7282ec053ef7bdb9e79b;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

add a comment
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diff --git a/tests/ls/stat-dtype b/tests/ls/stat-dtype
index ac4bc400b5..e94c2eb318 100755
--- a/tests/ls/stat-dtype
+++ b/tests/ls/stat-dtype
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Ensure that ls --file-type does not call stat unnecessarily.
+# The trick is to create an un-stat'able symlink and to see if ls
+# can report its type nonetheless, using dirent.d_type.
 
 if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
   set -x