Merge branch 'stable'

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

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/rename.texi b/doc/posix-functions/rename.texi
index cd11a6d..e412e90 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-functions/rename.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/rename.texi
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 @section @code{rename}
 @findex rename
 
-POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/rename.html}
+POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/rename.html}
 
 Gnulib module: rename
 
@@ -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/")}:
-Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw.
+AIX 7.1, Solaris 11 2010-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9.
 @item
 This function does not reject trailing slashes on symlinks to
 non-directories on some platforms, as in
@@ -32,17 +32,17 @@ NetBSD 1.6, Cygwin 1.5.x.
 @item
 This function will not always replace an existing destination on some
 platforms:
-Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw.
+Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9.
 However, the replacement is not atomic for directories, and may end up
 losing the empty destination if the source could not be renamed.
 @item
 This function mistakenly allows names ending in @samp{.} or @samp{..}
 on some platforms:
-Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw.
+Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9.
 @item
 This function does not reject attempts to rename existing directories
 and non-directories onto one another on some platforms:
-Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw.
+Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9.
 @item
 This function does not allow trailing slashes on source directories on
 older platforms, as in @samp{rename("dir/","new")}:
@@ -60,7 +60,12 @@ 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.
+mingw, MSVC 9.
 @end itemize