Documentation: file handles are now freed

Since file handles are freed, a little amendment to the documentation

Signed-off-by: Federica Teodori <federica.teodori@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
index 62682500878a97e69a107a99655ca280e72df915..4af0614147ef0749d617dec7f69731113e1c427c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
@@ -88,20 +88,19 @@ you might want to raise the limit.
 
 file-max & file-nr:
 
-The kernel allocates file handles dynamically, but as yet it
-doesn't free them again.
-
 The value in file-max denotes the maximum number of file-
 handles that the Linux kernel will allocate. When you get lots
 of error messages about running out of file handles, you might
 want to increase this limit.
 
-Historically, the three values in file-nr denoted the number of
-allocated file handles, the number of allocated but unused file
-handles, and the maximum number of file handles. Linux 2.6 always
-reports 0 as the number of free file handles -- this is not an
-error, it just means that the number of allocated file handles
-exactly matches the number of used file handles.
+Historically,the kernel was able to allocate file handles
+dynamically, but not to free them again. The three values in
+file-nr denote the number of allocated file handles, the number
+of allocated but unused file handles, and the maximum number of
+file handles. Linux 2.6 always reports 0 as the number of free
+file handles -- this is not an error, it just means that the
+number of allocated file handles exactly matches the number of
+used file handles.
 
 Attempts to allocate more file descriptors than file-max are
 reported with printk, look for "VFS: file-max limit <number>