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

Myro
2026-04-15T17:52:35Z

Fix missing "from" in "prevent <pid> --from-- being reused" and
add spacing in vm_area_struct range notation for readability.

No functional changes. :)
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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.

The main purpose of the map_files is to retrieve a set of memory mapped
files in a fast way instead of parsing /proc/<pid>/maps or
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