Re: [PATCH] docs: proc: fix minor grammar and formatting issues

Jonathan Corbet
2026-05-03T15:08:16Z

> From: Myro Demma <myro@myromyro.com>
>
> 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>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> index 873761087f8d..d828006bd91c 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
> @@ -2199,7 +2199,7 @@ 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.
>

Applied, thanks.

jon