Commit e662145f authored by Tomohiro Kusumi's avatar Tomohiro Kusumi Committed by Linus Torvalds

autofs: fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt

plus minor whitespace fixes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160812024734.12352.17122.stgit@pluto.themaw.netSigned-off-by: default avatarTomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent bfd45be0
......@@ -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
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