From: Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:19:40 +0000 (-0400) Subject: man: use the term 'calling process' instead of 'current process' X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fe329819973906b0e62f76d48585dec06bac6e4c;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git man: use the term 'calling process' instead of 'current process' Signed-off-by: Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo --- diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.1.adoc b/misc-utils/kill.1.adoc index 530b8758d..bae0cc69c 100644 --- a/misc-utils/kill.1.adoc +++ b/misc-utils/kill.1.adoc @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Each _PID_ can be expressed in one of the following ways: _n_;; where _n_ is larger than 0. The process with PID _n_ is signaled. *0*;; -All processes in the current process group are signaled. +All processes in the calling process group are signaled. *-1*;; All processes with a PID larger than 1 are signaled. **-**__n__;; diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8.adoc b/sys-utils/mount.8.adoc index 21836136e..55f522750 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.8.adoc +++ b/sys-utils/mount.8.adoc @@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ Set the permission mask for ADFS 'owner' permissions and 'other' permissions, re === Mount options for affs **uid=**__value__ and **gid=**__value__:: -Set the owner and group of the root of the filesystem (default: uid=gid=0, but with option *uid* or *gid* without specified value, the UID and GID of the current process are taken). +Set the owner and group of the root of the filesystem (default: uid=gid=0, but with option *uid* or *gid* without specified value, the UID and GID of the calling process are taken). **setuid=**__value__ and **setgid=**__value__:: Set the owner and group of all files. @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ Set the umask applied to regular files only. The default is the umask of the cur This option controls the permission check of mtime/atime. Possible values: *20*;; -If the current process is in the group of the file's group ID, +If the calling process is in the group of the file's group ID, you can change the timestamp. + *2*;; @@ -985,7 +985,7 @@ Other users can change the timestamp. The default is set from the above *dmask* option. (If the directory is writable, *utime*(2) is also allowed. That is: ~dmask & 022.) + -Normally *utime*(2) checks that the current process is the owner of the +Normally *utime*(2) checks that the calling process is the owner of the file, or that it has the *CAP_FOWNER* capability. But FAT filesystems don't have UID/GID on disk, so the normal check is too inflexible. With this option you can relax it. diff --git a/sys-utils/pivot_root.8.adoc b/sys-utils/pivot_root.8.adoc index c4acbbbbf..a757cd6e3 100644 --- a/sys-utils/pivot_root.8.adoc +++ b/sys-utils/pivot_root.8.adoc @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ pivot_root - change the root filesystem == DESCRIPTION -*pivot_root* moves the root filesystem of the current process to the directory _put_old_ and makes _new_root_ the new root filesystem. Since *pivot_root*(8) simply calls *pivot_root*(2), we refer to the man page of the latter for further details. +*pivot_root* moves the root filesystem of the calling process to the directory _put_old_ and makes _new_root_ the new root filesystem. Since *pivot_root*(8) simply calls *pivot_root*(2), we refer to the man page of the latter for further details. Note that, depending on the implementation of *pivot_root*, root and current working directory of the caller may or may not change. The following is a sequence for invoking *pivot_root* that works in either case, assuming that *pivot_root* and *chroot* are in the current *PATH*: diff --git a/sys-utils/prlimit.1.adoc b/sys-utils/prlimit.1.adoc index 907f07e39..129cc2e43 100644 --- a/sys-utils/prlimit.1.adoc +++ b/sys-utils/prlimit.1.adoc @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ Display the limits of the RSS, and set the soft and hard limits for the number o Modify only the soft limit for the number of processes. *prlimit --pid $$ --nproc=unlimited*:: -Set for the current process both the soft and ceiling values for the number of processes to unlimited. +Set for the calling process both the soft and ceiling values for the number of processes to unlimited. *prlimit --cpu=10 sort -u hugefile*:: Set both the soft and hard CPU time limit to ten seconds and run *sort*(1). diff --git a/term-utils/agetty.8.adoc b/term-utils/agetty.8.adoc index d8a021414..ac6e2efa5 100644 --- a/term-utils/agetty.8.adoc +++ b/term-utils/agetty.8.adoc @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ The baud-rate detection feature (the *--extract-baud* option) requires that the == DIAGNOSTICS -Depending on how the program was configured, all diagnostics are written to the console device or reported via the *syslog*(3) facility. Error messages are produced if the _port_ argument does not specify a terminal device; if there is no utmp entry for the current process (System V only); and so on. +Depending on how the program was configured, all diagnostics are written to the console device or reported via the *syslog*(3) facility. Error messages are produced if the _port_ argument does not specify a terminal device; if there is no utmp entry for the calling process (System V only); and so on. == AUTHORS