From c4c3dbc02418d1ed63189256e3c32a0a87ac809e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 08:53:30 +0200 Subject: doc: make it clear we're talking about the Linux kernel * doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): tweak wording --- doc/coreutils.texi | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') 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}. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf