From 407ff38d9405d5071a2b7282ec053ef7bdb9e79b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:25:03 +0000
Subject: add a comment

---
 tests/ls/stat-dtype | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tests')

diff --git a/tests/ls/stat-dtype b/tests/ls/stat-dtype
index ac4bc400b..e94c2eb31 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
-- 
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