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Returns `true` if the `fs.Stats` object describes a file system directory.
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If the `fs.Stats` object was obtained from [`fs.lstat()`][], this method will
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always return `false`. This is because [`fs.lstat()`][] returns information
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about a symbolic link itself and not the path it resolves to.
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### `stats.isFIFO()`
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<!-- YAML
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