mv trailing slash warning

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

Hi,
  In the info pages for 'mv' is the following statement:

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  _Warning_: If you try to move a symlink that points to a directory,
and you specify the symlink with a trailing slash, then `mv' doesn't
move the symlink but instead moves the directory referenced by the
symlink.  *Note Trailing slashes::.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hmm ok - so I try:

$ mkdir a b
$ ln -s $PWD/a sym
$ mv sym/ b
mv: cannot move `sym/' to `b/sym': Not a directory

The 'mv' is straight out of recent cvs. I'm in an ext3 filesystem
on Linux (Ubuntu).

Am I misunderstanding something about that warning or is this
a bug?

Dave
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