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| author | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2018-11-19 11:02:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2018-11-20 09:30:43 -0700 |
| commit | 806654a9667c6f60a65f1a4a4406082b5de51233 (patch) | |
| tree | 08b92f004840fb39bd563db58d0fb8bd5c6cc95a /Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt | |
| parent | 48c465d23d5ce55a84062e556e07a8a663349536 (diff) | |
| download | linux-806654a9667c6f60a65f1a4a4406082b5de51233.tar.bz2 | |
Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"
Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth:
| Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more
| formal, and "while" is the common word.
|
| [...]
|
| Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to
| use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never
| uses?
dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is
probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation.
Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while".
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt index 748a1ae49e12..28aefcbb1442 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ filesystems are very specific in nature. CacheFiles creates a misc character device - "/dev/cachefiles" - that is used to communication with the daemon. Only one thing may have this open at once, -and whilst it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence. The daemon +and while it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence. The daemon opens this and sends commands down it to control the cache. CacheFiles is currently limited to a single cache. @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Do not mount other things within the cache as this will cause problems. The kernel module contains its own very cut-down path walking facility that ignores mountpoints, but the daemon can't avoid them. -Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache whilst the +Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache while the cache is active, as this may cause the state to become uncertain. Renaming files in the cache might make objects appear to be other objects (the |