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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 |