diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md index e20ab0f1fd9c1b..d5e2a2dfedc5cd 100644 --- a/doc/api/fs.md +++ b/doc/api/fs.md @@ -826,6 +826,10 @@ added: v0.1.10 Returns `true` if the `fs.Stats` object describes a file system directory. +If the `fs.Stats` object was obtained from [`fs.lstat()`][], this method will +always return `false`. This is because [`fs.lstat()`][] returns information +about a symbolic link itself and not the path it resolves to. + ### `stats.isFIFO()`