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[PATCH 2/2] stat-macros: document the stat-macros module.


From: James Youngman
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] stat-macros: document the stat-macros module.
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 00:38:03 +0100

* doc/gnulib.texi: Include stat-macros.texi.
* doc/stat-macros.texi: Documentation for this module.
---
 ChangeLog            |    6 ++++++
 doc/gnulib.texi      |    4 ++++
 doc/stat-macros.texi |   31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 doc/stat-macros.texi

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c7ddc06..3f74eea 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-06-07  James Youngman  <address@hidden>
+
+       stat-macros: document the stat-macros module.
+       * doc/gnulib.texi: Include stat-macros.texi.
+       * doc/stat-macros.texi: Documentation for this module.
+
 2011-06-06  James Youngman  <address@hidden>
 
        stat-macros: Enhance to provide block-related information.
diff --git a/doc/gnulib.texi b/doc/gnulib.texi
index 1e1ad40..416d48c 100644
--- a/doc/gnulib.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib.texi
@@ -6512,6 +6512,7 @@ This list of functions is sorted according to the header 
that declares them.
 * warnings::
 * manywarnings::
 * Running self-tests under valgrind::
+* stat-macros::
 @end menu
 
 @node alloca
@@ -6608,6 +6609,9 @@ ASCII characters.
 
 @include valgrind-tests.texi
 
address@hidden stat-macros.texi
+
+
 @node Regular expressions
 @chapter Regular expressions
 
diff --git a/doc/stat-macros.texi b/doc/stat-macros.texi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b925032
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/stat-macros.texi
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
address@hidden stat-macros
address@hidden stat-macros
+
+The @code{stat-macros} module provides a small number of macros
+intended for interpreting the information in an instance of
address@hidden stat}.
+
address@hidden not a function, but index it anyhow.
address@hidden CHMOD_MODE_BITS
+This macro is a bitmask indicating which bits in the @code{st_mode}
+member of @code{struct stat} can be affected by @code{chmod}.
+
address@hidden We deliberately don't document DEV_BSIZE (it looks to James
address@hidden Youngman as if the ST_NBLOCKSIZE macro should be used instead).
+
address@hidden ST_NBLOCKS
address@hidden ST_NBLOCKSIZE
address@hidden block size
+On POSIX systems, the @code{st_blocks} member of @code{struct stat}
+contains the number of disk blocks occupied by a file.  The
address@hidden macro is used to estimate this quantity on systems
+which don't actually have @code{st_blocks}.  Each of these blocks
+contains @code{ST_NBLOCKSIZE} bytes.
+
address@hidden ST_BLKSIZE
+The value of @code{ST_NBLOCKSIZE} is often quite small, small enough
+that performing I/O in chunks that size would be inefficient.
address@hidden is the I/O block size recommended for I/O to this
+file.  This is not guaranteed to give optimum performance, but it
+should be reasonably efficient.
+
-- 
1.7.2.5




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