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From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 14:36:02 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] =?UTF-8?q?mv:=20clarify=20=E2=80=98mv=20-n=20A=20A?=
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 NEWS | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b7ec20085..8a9e09eb4 100644
--- 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.
-- 
2.14.3