Re: [PATCH] Fix typos found by misspellings

[Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>]

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On Sat, Jun 8, 2013, at 1:49, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote:
>> The
>>  .BR rootcontext=
>>  option allows you to explicitly label the root inode of a FS being mounted
>> -before that FS or inode because visable to userspace. This was found to be
>> +before that FS or inode because visible to userspace. This was found to be
>>  useful for things like stateless linux.
> 
> I still do not understand the first sentence.  What is that supposed to 
> mean?

Maybe s/because/becomes/?

Attached patch makes that change, plus some grammar fixes.

Regards,

Benno

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From 753acb231f5cbbe846f0cdb0717ad91e8255cb4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 10:50:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs: fix mistaken word and some grammar in man page of mount
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Reported-by: Krzysztof Żelechowski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
---
 sys-utils/mount.8 |   23 +++++++++++------------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8
index 3ffdb24..a9c68fd 100644
--- a/sys-utils/mount.8
+++ b/sys-utils/mount.8
@@ -946,28 +946,27 @@ filesystem that supports xattr labeling.
 The
 .BR rootcontext=
 option allows you to explicitly label the root inode of a FS being mounted
-before that FS or inode because visible to userspace. This was found to be
+before that FS or inode becomes visible to userspace.  This was found to be
 useful for things like stateless linux.
 
-Note that kernel rejects any remount request that includes the context
-option even if unchanged from the current context.
+Note that the kernel rejects any remount request that includes the context
+option, \fBeven\fP when unchanged from the current context.
 
-.B Warning that \fIcontext\fP value might contains comma
-and in this case the value has to be properly quoted otherwise
+.BR "Warning: the \fIcontext\fP value might contain commas" ,
+in which case the value has to be properly quoted, otherwise
 .BR mount (8)
-will interpret the comma as separator between mount options. Don't forget that
-shell strips off quotes and
-.BR "double quoting is required" ,
-for example:
+will interpret the comma as a separator between mount options.  Don't forget that
+the shell strips off quotes and thus
+.BR "double quoting is required" .
+For example:
 .RS
 .RS
 .sp
-mount -t tmpfs none /mnt \-o 'context="system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0:c127,c456",noexec'
+.B mount -t tmpfs none /mnt \-o 'context="system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0:c127,c456",noexec'
 .sp
 .RE
-
 For more details, see
-.BR selinux (8)
+.BR selinux (8).
 .RE
 
 .TP
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