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@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ access to the bus. Otherwise the group should have no access.
If (\fImode\fP &S_IRWXO) others (except the group) should be given
read and write access to the bus. Otherwise others should have no
access.
+.PP
+The current permissions of a bus can be retrieved by running
+.BR stat (3)
+over the \fIpathname\fP of the bus.
.SH RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the function returns 0. Otherwise the
function returns -1 and sets \fIerrno\fP to indicate the error.
@@ -48,7 +52,8 @@ as well as any errors specified for the \fIIPC_STAT\fP and
.BR bus (5),
.BR libbus (7),
.BR bus_open (3),
-.BR bus_read (3)
+.BR bus_read (3),
+.BR stat (3)
.SH AUTHORS
Principal author, Mattias Andrée. See the LICENSE file for the full
list of authors.