diff man/maintaining.texi @ 68927:1ccf0b1b5b01

(Create Tags Table): Explain why the exception when etags writes to files under the /dev tree.

--- a/man/maintaining.texi	Wed Feb 15 13:29:34 2006 +0000
+++ b/man/maintaining.texi	Wed Feb 15 13:30:19 2006 +0000
@@ -404,7 +404,8 @@
 move an entire directory tree containing both the tags file and the
 source files, and the tags file will still refer correctly to the source
 files.  If the tags file is in @file{/dev}, however, the file names are
-made relative to the current working directory.
+made relative to the current working directory.  This is useful, for
+example, when writing the tags to @file{/dev/stdout}.
 
   If you specify absolute file names as arguments to @code{etags}, then
 the tags file will contain absolute file names.  This way, the tags file