Document passing table as second argument to lfs.attributes

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/doc/us/manual.html b/doc/us/manual.html
index 7a92f58..86c3406 100644
--- a/doc/us/manual.html
+++ b/doc/us/manual.html
@@ -102,14 +102,15 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
 </p>
 
 <dl class="reference">
-    <dt><a name="attributes"></a><strong><code>lfs.attributes (filepath [, aname])</code></strong></dt>
+    <dt><a name="attributes"></a><strong><code>lfs.attributes (filepath [, aname | atable])</code></strong></dt>
     <dd>Returns a table with the file attributes corresponding to
     <code>filepath</code> (or <code>nil</code> followed by an error message
     in case of error).
-    If the second optional argument is given, then only the value of the
+    If the second optional argument is given and is a string, then only the value of the
     named attribute is returned (this use is equivalent to
-    <code>lfs.attributes(filepath).aname</code>, but the table is not created
+    <code>lfs.attributes(filepath)[aname]</code>, but the table is not created
     and only one attribute is retrieved from the O.S.).
+    if a table is passed as the second argument, it is filled with attributes and returned instead of a new table.
     The attributes are described as follows;
     attribute <code>mode</code> is a string, all the others are numbers,
     and the time related attributes use the same time reference of
diff --git a/src/lfs.c b/src/lfs.c
index d6b55df..a35413d 100644
--- a/src/lfs.c
+++ b/src/lfs.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 **
 ** File system manipulation library.
 ** This library offers these functions:
-**   lfs.attributes (filepath [, attributename])
+**   lfs.attributes (filepath [, attributename | attributetable])
 **   lfs.chdir (path)
 **   lfs.currentdir ()
 **   lfs.dir (path)