bpo-29707: Document that os.path.ismount() is not able to reliable detect bind mounts...

diff --git a/Doc/library/os.path.rst b/Doc/library/os.path.rst
index 23194aee66d517206df0ee14ebe45a83113006dd..ebbf63cc3548c437f439db8438ebfdd70c51772a 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/os.path.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.path.rst
@@ -283,10 +283,11 @@ the :mod:`glob` module.)
 
    Return ``True`` if pathname *path* is a :dfn:`mount point`: a point in a
    file system where a different file system has been mounted.  On POSIX, the
-   function checks whether *path*'s parent, :file:`path/..`, is on a different
-   device than *path*, or whether :file:`path/..` and *path* point to the same
+   function checks whether *path*'s parent, :file:`{path}/..`, is on a different
+   device than *path*, or whether :file:`{path}/..` and *path* point to the same
    i-node on the same device --- this should detect mount points for all Unix
-   and POSIX variants.  On Windows, a drive letter root and a share UNC are
+   and POSIX variants.  It is not able to reliably detect bind mounts on the
+   same filesystem.  On Windows, a drive letter root and a share UNC are
    always mount points, and for any other path ``GetVolumePathName`` is called
    to see if it is different from the input path.