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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-08-03 08:53:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-08-03 08:53:52 +0200 |
| commit | c4c3dbc02418d1ed63189256e3c32a0a87ac809e (patch) | |
| tree | 505d596136710039d9f6434a1851f5425e44b42b /doc | |
| parent | 110df929fc42906b2f13729d1cf0b06b4753ce6d (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-c4c3dbc02418d1ed63189256e3c32a0a87ac809e.tar.xz | |
doc: make it clear we're talking about the Linux kernel
* doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): tweak wording
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index c789a6cc4..b47448f5d 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7984,7 +7984,7 @@ response is not affirmative, the file is skipped. when it might be a symlink to a directory. Otherwise, @command{mv} may do something very surprising, since its behavior depends on the underlying rename system call. -On modern Linux systems, it fails with @code{errno=ENOTDIR}. +On a system with a modern Linux-based kernel, it fails with @code{errno=ENOTDIR}. However, on other systems (at least FreeBSD 6.1 and Solaris 10) it silently renames not the symlink but rather the directory referenced by the symlink. @xref{Trailing slashes}. |