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authorTomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com>2016-10-11 23:52:25 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-12 01:06:31 +0300
commite662145f5c1276d35e8955b3df7a68da306ee498 (patch)
tree3c83ff66ddbbc6afc6df5482614ec49ffdad4888 /Documentation
parentbfd45be0b83e8f711f3abc892850d6047972d127 (diff)
downloadlinux-e662145f5c1276d35e8955b3df7a68da306ee498.tar.xz
autofs: fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt
plus minor whitespace fixes. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160812024734.12352.17122.stgit@pluto.themaw.net Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt
index 39d02e19fb62..8fac3fe7b8c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt
@@ -203,9 +203,9 @@ initiated or is being considered, otherwise it returns 0.
Mountpoint expiry
-----------------
-The VFS has a mechansim for automatically expiring unused mounts,
+The VFS has a mechanism for automatically expiring unused mounts,
much as it can expire any unused dentry information from the dcache.
-This is guided by the MNT_SHRINKABLE flag. This only applies to
+This is guided by the MNT_SHRINKABLE flag. This only applies to
mounts that were created by `d_automount()` returning a filesystem to be
mounted. As autofs doesn't return such a filesystem but leaves the
mounting to the automount daemon, it must involve the automount daemon
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ remove directories and symlinks using normal filesystem operations.
autofs knows whether a process requesting some operation is the daemon
or not based on its process-group id number (see getpgid(1)).
-When an autofs filesystem it mounted the pgid of the mounting
+When an autofs filesystem is mounted the pgid of the mounting
processes is recorded unless the "pgrp=" option is given, in which
case that number is recorded instead. Any request arriving from a
process in that process group is considered to come from the daemon.
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ Commands are:
numbers for existing filesystems can be found in
`/proc/self/mountinfo`.
- **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_CLOSEMOUNT_CMD**: same as `close(ioctlfd)`.
-- **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_SETPIPEFD_CMD**: if the filesystem is in
+- **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_SETPIPEFD_CMD**: if the filesystem is in
catatonic mode, this can provide the write end of a new pipe
in `arg1` to re-establish communication with a daemon. The
process group of the calling process is used to identify the