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| author | Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com> | 2016-10-11 13:52:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-11 15:06:31 -0700 |
| commit | e662145f5c1276d35e8955b3df7a68da306ee498 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c83ff66ddbbc6afc6df5482614ec49ffdad4888 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | bfd45be0b83e8f711f3abc892850d6047972d127 (diff) | |
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/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt | 8 |
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 |