mv: clarify ‘mv -n A A’ change

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b7ec20085fc00f1f9ad67c70f8f4c39d8f53d1ec..8a9e09eb4facf280553d484f3eda87b06d740ed5 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   'mv -n A B' no longer suffers from a race condition that can
   overwrite a simultaneously-created B.  This bug fix requires
   platform support for the renameat2 or renameatx_np syscalls, found
-  in recent Linux and macOS kernels.
+  in recent Linux and macOS kernels.  As a side effect, ‘mv -n A A’
+  now silently does nothing if A exists.
   [bug introduced with coreutils-7.1]
 
   'cp -n -u' and 'mv -n -u' now consistently ignore the -u option.