Correct stat docstring on blocks' blocksize (#51460)

The block size when reporting `blocks` is _always_ 512, regardless of the filesystem, on all systems we currently know about and support, and in particular is typically not the same as blksize (which is commonly reported as 4096). Fixes #51447
JuliaLang · Sep 27, 2023 · 7428d8a · 7428d8a
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@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ The fields of the structure are:
 | gid     | The group id of the file owner                                     |
 | rdev    | If this file refers to a device, the ID of the device it refers to |
 | blksize | The file-system preferred block size for the file                  |
-| blocks  | The number of such blocks allocated                                |
+| blocks  | The number of 512-byte blocks allocated                            |
 | mtime   | Unix timestamp of when the file was last modified                  |
 | ctime   | Unix timestamp of when the file's metadata was changed             |