From: Myro Demma Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:30:01 +0000 (+0200) Subject: docs: proc: fix minor grammar and formatting issues X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=80647a62857ab530444c9bbb2f8aace17ff49b77;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git docs: proc: fix minor grammar and formatting issues Fix missing "from" in "prevent being reused" and add spacing in vm_area_struct range notation for readability. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Myro Demma Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260428133001.11384-1-myro@myromyro.com> --- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 3c6e4f52f3e4e..a4c2b22c08efb 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/ or to any of its -contained files or subdirectories does not prevent being reused +contained files or subdirectories does not prevent from being reused for some other process in the event that exits. Operations on open /proc/ 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//maps or