"xxx``at``" makes the `` appear verbatim in the HTML output. I've opted for changing this into ``*at()`` to harmonise this with the use of * seen later in the same document (and add the parentheses to clarify that this is a system/function call). ``path_``* also makes `` appear in the HTML output, but we can fix it by moving the * into the ``. Also add the parantheses here. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst index 1a8fae5036b34..23602547b8edb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst @@ -43,15 +43,15 @@ characters, and "components" that are sequences of one or more non-"``/``" characters. These form two kinds of paths. Those that start with slashes are "absolute" and start from the filesystem root. The others are "relative" and start from the current directory, or -from some other location specified by a file descriptor given to a -"``XXXat``" system call such as `openat() <openat_>`_. +from some other location specified by a file descriptor given to +"``*at()``" system calls such as `openat() <openat_>`_. .. _execveat: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/execveat.2.html It is tempting to describe the second kind as starting with a component, but that isn't always accurate: a pathname can lack both slashes and components, it can be empty, in other words. This is -generally forbidden in POSIX, but some of those "xxx``at``" system calls +generally forbidden in POSIX, but some of those "``*at()``" system calls in Linux permit it when the ``AT_EMPTY_PATH`` flag is given. For example, if you have an open file descriptor on an executable file you can execute it by calling `execveat() <execveat_>`_ passing @@ -655,8 +655,8 @@ This pattern of "try RCU-walk, if that fails try REF-walk" can be clearly seen in functions like ``filename_lookup()``, ``filename_parentat()``, ``filename_mountpoint()``, ``do_filp_open()``, and ``do_file_open_root()``. These five -correspond roughly to the four ``path_``* functions we met earlier, -each of which calls ``link_path_walk()``. The ``path_*`` functions are +correspond roughly to the four ``path_*()`` functions we met earlier, +each of which calls ``link_path_walk()``. The ``path_*()`` functions are called using different mode flags until a mode is found which works. They are first called with ``LOOKUP_RCU`` set to request "RCU-walk". If that fails with the error ``ECHILD`` they are called again with no -- 2.16.1.72.g5be1f00a9.dirty
