# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 1178473759 0
# Node ID e0c0a6271f90f18ed82f59edbf5ec8c9f4bbfce8
# Parent  61d6d08c1ecfddc1343111699ac1410389211ee2
(Create Tags Table): Add text about the dangers of
making symbolic links to tags files.  (Clarified by RMS.)

diff -r 61d6d08c1ecf -r e0c0a6271f90 man/maintaining.texi
--- a/man/maintaining.texi	Sun May 06 17:44:41 2007 +0000
+++ b/man/maintaining.texi	Sun May 06 17:49:19 2007 +0000
@@ -409,6 +409,10 @@
 files.  If the tags file is in @file{/dev}, however, the file names are
 made relative to the current working directory.  This is useful, for
 example, when writing the tags to @file{/dev/stdout}.
+ 
+  When using a a relative file name, it should not be a symbolic link
+pointing to a tags file in a different directory, because this would
+generally render the file names invalid.
 
   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