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[PATCH] doc: traversing symlinks elaboration


From: Yurij Goncharuk
Subject: [PATCH] doc: traversing symlinks elaboration
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:59:41 +0300

Hello!
Is will be enough to elaborate about traversing symlinks (for info pages) like 
in bellow patch?
Thanks and sorry for my english, I’m not native speaker.

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 9fa680a01..2757b2a1e 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -1427,10 +1427,11 @@ other parts of that standard.
 @cindex symbolic link to directory, controlling traversal of

 The following options modify how @command{chown} and @command{chgrp}
-@c FIXME: note that 'du' has these options, too, but they have slightly
-@c different meaning.
 traverse a hierarchy when the @option{--recursive} (@option{-R})
-option is also specified.
+option is also specified.  Also @command{du} has these options, too,
+but they have slightly different meaning and they no need
+@option{--recursive} (@option{-R}) option to be specified.
+Also see @ref{du invocation} for details.
 If more than one of the following options is specified, only the final
 one takes effect.
 These options specify whether processing a symbolic link to a directory
--
2.14.1 


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