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@@ -102,14 +102,15 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
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 <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