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| author | Myro Demma <myro@myromyro.com> | 2026-04-28 15:30:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2026-05-03 09:07:35 -0600 |
| commit | 80647a62857ab530444c9bbb2f8aace17ff49b77 (patch) | |
| tree | 3fad609146e0bc6739a40b5fb593e0651f2dee98 | |
| parent | 45ef180629cb73324f3a2cb962bce5e9fe6f1aa6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-80647a62857ab530444c9bbb2f8aace17ff49b77.tar.gz linux-80647a62857ab530444c9bbb2f8aace17ff49b77.zip | |
docs: proc: fix minor grammar and formatting issues
Fix missing "from" in "prevent <pid> being reused" and
add spacing in vm_area_struct range notation for readability.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Myro Demma <myro@myromyro.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260428133001.11384-1-myro@myromyro.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 3c6e4f52f3e4..a4c2b22c08ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH permissions; CAP_PERFMON capability does not grant access to /proc/PID/mem for other processes. Note that an open file descriptor to /proc/<pid> or to any of its -contained files or subdirectories does not prevent <pid> being reused +contained files or subdirectories does not prevent <pid> from being reused for some other process in the event that <pid> exits. Operations on open /proc/<pid> file descriptors corresponding to dead processes never act on any new process that the kernel may, through chance, have @@ -2211,7 +2211,7 @@ the process is maintaining. Example output:: | lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 400000-41a000 -> /usr/bin/ls The name of a link represents the virtual memory bounds of a mapping, i.e. -vm_area_struct::vm_start-vm_area_struct::vm_end. +vm_area_struct::vm_start - vm_area_struct::vm_end. The main purpose of the map_files is to retrieve a set of memory mapped files in a fast way instead of parsing /proc/<pid>/maps or |