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rename.2: grfix: add some commas 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2014-02-04 11:42:24 +01:00
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@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ are also unaffected.
If
.I newpath
already exists it will be atomically replaced (subject to
already exists, it will be atomically replaced (subject to
a few conditions; see ERRORS below), so that there is
no point at which another process attempting to access
.I newpath
@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ does nothing, and returns a success status.
If
.I newpath
exists but the operation fails for some reason
exists but the operation fails for some reason,
.BR rename ()
guarantees to leave an instance of
.I newpath
@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ refer to the file being renamed.
If
.I oldpath
refers to a symbolic link the link is renamed; if
refers to a symbolic link, the link is renamed; if
.I newpath
refers to a symbolic link the link will be overwritten.
refers to a symbolic link, the link will be overwritten.
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned.
On error, \-1 is returned, and
@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ even if the same filesystem is mounted on both.)
4.3BSD, C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.
.SH BUGS
On NFS filesystems, you can not assume that if the operation
failed the file was not renamed.
failed, the file was not renamed.
If the server does the rename operation
and then crashes, the retransmitted RPC which will be processed when the
server is up again causes a failure.