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From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH trivial] docs: fix core_pipe_limit info
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 00:03:40 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0910060003310.10941@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC95891.3000707@oracle.com>

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> 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.

Applied to trivial queue, thanks Randy.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-05 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-05  2:23 Randy Dunlap
2009-10-05 22:03 ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
2009-10-05 23:47   ` Neil Horman

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