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[gnulib.git] / doc / posix-functions / rename.texi

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/rename.texi b/doc/posix-functions/rename.texi
index 7c66d28..300970c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-functions/rename.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/rename.texi
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ NetBSD 1.6.
 @item
 This function does not reject trailing slashes on the destination for
 non-directories on some platforms, as in @code{rename("file","new/")}:
-AIX 7.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw.
+AIX 7.1, Solaris 11 2010-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw.
 @item
 This function does not reject trailing slashes on symlinks to
 non-directories on some platforms, as in
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ is counter-intuitive, so on some systems, @code{rename} fails with
 @code{ENOTDIR} if either argument is a symlink with a trailing slash:
 glibc, OpenBSD, Cygwin 1.7.
 @item
+After renaming a non-empty directory over an existing empty directory,
+the old directory name is still visible through the @code{stat} function
+for 30 seconds after the rename, on NFS file systems, on some platforms:
+Linux 2.6.18.
+@item
 This function will not rename a source that is currently opened
 by any process:
 mingw.