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locking: fcntl.h: drop duplicated word in a comment

Message ID 13c2a925-8522-64e2-4d30-97395901e296@infradead.org (mailing list archive)
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Series locking: fcntl.h: drop duplicated word in a comment | expand

Commit Message

Randy Dunlap July 18, 2020, 2:54 a.m. UTC 
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Drop the doubled word "the" in a comment.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
---
 include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Matthew Wilcox July 18, 2020, 3:19 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 07:54:13PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> +++ linux-next-20200714/include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h
> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
>   * record  locks, but are "owned" by the open file description, not the
>   * process. This means that they are inherited across fork() like BSD (flock)
>   * locks, and they are only released automatically when the last reference to
> - * the the open file against which they were acquired is put.
> + * the open file against which they were acquired is put.

This is the kind of sentence up with which I shall not put!

How about "This means that they are inherited across fork() like BSD
  (flock) locks, and they are automatically released when the last
  reference is released for the file they were acquired against.

Even that is a bit too convoluted for my tastes.  Better suggestions
welcome.
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--- linux-next-20200714.orig/include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h
+++ linux-next-20200714/include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ 
  * record  locks, but are "owned" by the open file description, not the
  * process. This means that they are inherited across fork() like BSD (flock)
  * locks, and they are only released automatically when the last reference to
- * the the open file against which they were acquired is put.
+ * the open file against which they were acquired is put.
  */
 #define F_OFD_GETLK	36
 #define F_OFD_SETLK	37