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| author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2009-09-22 15:03:02 -0600 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-09-23 08:45:08 +0200 |
| commit | 8a1edc971f6439c51027873a345378ec52954c9d (patch) | |
| tree | 3b9d5c266b9a89e9edb0aed103119cb25fa8d3d8 /doc | |
| parent | 70253e9179d25ab666807d29c32b91cbf0797d72 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-8a1edc971f6439c51027873a345378ec52954c9d.tar.xz | |
readlink: pick up gnulib changes to readlink -f
* bootstrap.conf (obsolete_gnulib_modules): Move rename...
(gnulib_modules): ...here. Add symlink.
* NEWS: Document the change in readlink.
* doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Likewise.
* tests/readlink/can-f: Update test to new semantics, and add test
of loop.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index fa0562626..0bfbd5689 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -9204,7 +9204,8 @@ The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. @opindex --canonicalize Activate canonicalize mode. If any component of the file name except the last one is missing or unavailable, -@command{readlink} produces no output and exits with a nonzero exit code. +@command{readlink} produces no output and exits with a nonzero exit +code. A trailing slash is ignored. @item -e @itemx --canonicalize-existing @@ -9212,7 +9213,8 @@ If any component of the file name except the last one is missing or unavailable, @opindex --canonicalize-existing Activate canonicalize mode. If any component is missing or unavailable, @command{readlink} produces -no output and exits with a nonzero exit code. +no output and exits with a nonzero exit code. A trailing slash +requires that the name resolve to a directory. @item -m @itemx --canonicalize-missing |