From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 06:53:30 +0000 (+0200) Subject: doc: make it clear we're talking about the Linux kernel X-Git-Tag: v7.0~108 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c4c3dbc02418d1ed63189256e3c32a0a87ac809e;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git doc: make it clear we're talking about the Linux kernel * doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): tweak wording --- diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index c789a6cc42..b47448f5dd 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}.