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docs: fs: stat.isDirectory: added clarification #27413

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docs: fs: stat.isDirectory: valid only for fs.stat and fs.fstat
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Update doc/api/fs.md
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Returns `true` if the `fs.Stats` object describes a file system directory.

### `stats.isFIFO()`
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()
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