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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst index 72a497d9e468..3f79071cff21 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 |