diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md index 9969412dbdb48f..08041a58819311 100644 --- a/doc/api/fs.md +++ b/doc/api/fs.md @@ -809,6 +809,10 @@ 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()`