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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>
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Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt

@@ -88,20 +88,19 @@ you might want to raise the limit.
 
 
 file-max & file-nr:
 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-
 The value in file-max denotes the maximum number of file-
 handles that the Linux kernel will allocate. When you get lots
 handles that the Linux kernel will allocate. When you get lots
 of error messages about running out of file handles, you might
 of error messages about running out of file handles, you might
 want to increase this limit.
 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
 Attempts to allocate more file descriptors than file-max are
 reported with printk, look for "VFS: file-max limit <number>
 reported with printk, look for "VFS: file-max limit <number>