From 9d6299e824e388b900f7bf31ee48edd1f944d346 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:26:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Note that EEXIST applies, even if the pathname is a (possibly
 dangling) symbolic link.

---
 man2/mknod.2  | 3 +++
 man3/mkfifo.3 | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man2/mknod.2 b/man2/mknod.2
index fa06615c7..98a0f65e3 100644
--- a/man2/mknod.2
+++ b/man2/mknod.2
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ did not allow search permission.
 .B EEXIST
 .I pathname
 already exists.
+This includes the case where
+.I pathname
+is a symbolic link, dangling or not.
 .TP
 .B EFAULT
 .IR pathname " points outside your accessible address space."
diff --git a/man3/mkfifo.3 b/man3/mkfifo.3
index d86661e0a..961f6326f 100644
--- a/man3/mkfifo.3
+++ b/man3/mkfifo.3
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" changed section from 2 to 3, aeb, 950919
 .\"
-.TH MKFIFO 3 1995-09-03 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH MKFIFO 3 2008-06-12 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 mkfifo \- make a FIFO special file (a named pipe)
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ One of the directories in \fIpathname\fP did not allow search
 .TP
 .B EEXIST
 \fIpathname\fP already exists.
+This includes the case where
+.I pathname
+is a symbolic link, dangling or not.
 .TP
 .B ENAMETOOLONG
 Either the total length of \fIpathname\fP is greater than