From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 16:11:32 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Closes #12350: clarify blocks/block size members of stat result.
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Closes #12350: clarify blocks/block size members of stat result.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index bd6b3abdce..ee378a6b15 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -1813,8 +1813,8 @@ features:
    On some Unix systems (such as Linux), the following attributes may also be
    available:
 
-   * :attr:`st_blocks` - number of blocks allocated for file
-   * :attr:`st_blksize` - filesystem blocksize
+   * :attr:`st_blocks` - number of 512-byte blocks allocated for file
+   * :attr:`st_blksize` - filesystem blocksize for efficient file system I/O
    * :attr:`st_rdev` - type of device if an inode device
    * :attr:`st_flags` - user defined flags for file