From e662145f5c1276d35e8955b3df7a68da306ee498 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomohiro Kusumi Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:52:25 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Ian Kent Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3