From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org, nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Subject: [PATCH trivial] docs: fix core_pipe_limit info
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:23:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC95891.3000707@oracle.com> (raw)
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Fix typos in core_pipe_limit info.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
---
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- linux-next-20090930.orig/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ linux-next-20090930/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ core_pattern is used to specify a core d
core_pipe_limit:
This sysctl is only applicable when core_pattern is configured to pipe core
-files to user space helper a (when the first character of core_pattern is a '|',
+files to a user space helper (when the first character of core_pattern is a '|',
see above). When collecting cores via a pipe to an application, it is
-occasionally usefull for the collecting application to gather data about the
+occasionally useful for the collecting application to gather data about the
crashing process from its /proc/pid directory. In order to do this safely, the
kernel must wait for the collecting process to exit, so as not to remove the
crashing processes proc files prematurely. This in turn creates the possibility
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ applications in parallel. If this value
processes above that value are noted via the kernel log and their cores are
skipped. 0 is a special value, indicating that unlimited processes may be
captured in parallel, but that no waiting will take place (i.e. the collecting
-process is not guaranteed access to /proc/<crahing pid>/). This value defaults
+process is not guaranteed access to /proc/<crashing pid>/). This value defaults
to 0.
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next reply other threads:[~2009-10-05 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-05 2:23 Randy Dunlap [this message]
2009-10-05 22:03 ` [PATCH trivial] docs: fix core_pipe_limit info Jiri Kosina
2009-10-05 23:47 ` Neil Horman
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