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@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Permission to read or search a component of the file name was denied.
@end table
@end deftypefun
-Here is an example showing how you could implement the behavior of GNU's
+Here is an example showing how you could implement the behavior of GNU's@*
@w{@code{getcwd (NULL, 0)}} using only the standard behavior of
@code{getcwd}:
@@ -230,17 +230,18 @@ A character device.
A block device.
@end table
-This member is a BSD extension. Each value except DT_UNKNOWN
+This member is a BSD extension. On systems where it is used, it
corresponds to the file type bits in the @code{st_mode} member of
-@code{struct statbuf}. These two macros convert between @code{d_type}
-values and @code{st_mode} values:
+@code{struct statbuf}. On other systems it will always be DT_UNKNOWN.
+These two macros convert between @code{d_type} values and @code{st_mode}
+values:
@deftypefun int IFTODT (mode_t @var{mode})
This returns the @code{d_type} value corresponding to @var{mode}.
@end deftypefun
-@deftypefun mode_t DTTOIF (int @var{dirtype})
-This returns the @code{st_mode} value corresponding to @var{dirtype}.
+@deftypefun mode_t DTTOIF (int @var{dtype})
+This returns the @code{st_mode} value corresponding to @var{dtype}.
@end deftypefun
@end table