Adding function symlinkatributes. Updating version to 1.3.0

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/us/manual.html b/doc/us/manual.html
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@@ -153,6 +153,12 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
         <dt><strong><code>blksize</code></strong></dt>
                 <dd>optimal file system I/O blocksize; (Unix only)</dd>
             </dl>
+    This function uses <code>stat</code> internally thus if the given
+    <code>filepath</code> is a symbolic link, it is followed (if it points to
+    another link the chain is followed recursively) and the information
+    is about the file it refers to.
+    To obtain information about the link itself, see function
+    <a href="#symlinkattributes">lfs.symlinkattributes</a>.
         </dd>
 
     <dt><a name="chdir"></a><strong><code>lfs.chdir (path)</code></strong></dt>
@@ -197,6 +203,11 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
     Returns <code>true</code> if the operation was successful;
     in case of error, it returns <code>nil</code> plus an error string.</dd>
     
+    <dt><a name="symlinkattributes"></a><strong><code>lfs.symlinkattributes (filepath [, aname])</code></strong></dt>
+    <dd>Identical to <a href="#attributes">lfs.attributes</a> except that
+    it obtains information about the link itself (not the file it refers to).
+    </dd>
+
     <dt><a name="touch"></a><strong><code>lfs.touch (filepath [, atime [, mtime]])</code></strong></dt>
     <dd>Set access and modification times of a file. This function is
     a bind to <code>utime</code> function. The first argument is the
@@ -228,7 +239,7 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
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