Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"

Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth:

  | Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more
  | formal, and "while" is the common word.
  |
  | [...]
  |
  | Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to
  | use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never
  | uses?

dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is
probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation.

Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while".

Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
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Will Deacon 2018-11-19 11:02:45 +00:00 • committed by Jonathan Corbet
commit 806654a966
33 changed files with 56 additions and 56 deletions

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@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ for example), it must be considered immutable, barring two exceptions:
1. The reference count may be altered.
2. Whilst the keyring subscriptions of a set of credentials may not be
2. While the keyring subscriptions of a set of credentials may not be
changed, the keyrings subscribed to may have their contents altered.
To catch accidental credential alteration at compile time, struct task_struct
@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ Once a reference has been obtained, it must be released with ``put_cred()``,
Accessing Another Task's Credentials
------------------------------------
Whilst a task may access its own credentials without the need for locking, the
While a task may access its own credentials without the need for locking, the
same is not true of a task wanting to access another task's credentials. It
must use the RCU read lock and ``rcu_dereference()``.
@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ This should be used inside the RCU read lock, as in the following example::
}
Should it be necessary to hold another task's credentials for a long period of
time, and possibly to sleep whilst doing so, then the caller should get a
time, and possibly to sleep while doing so, then the caller should get a
reference on them using::
const struct cred *get_task_cred(struct task_struct *task);
@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ duplicate of the current process's credentials, returning with the mutex still
held if successful. It returns NULL if not successful (out of memory).
The mutex prevents ``ptrace()`` from altering the ptrace state of a process
whilst security checks on credentials construction and changing is taking place
while security checks on credentials construction and changing is taking place
as the ptrace state may alter the outcome, particularly in the case of
``execve()``.

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@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Negative Instantiation And Rejection
Rather than instantiating a key, it is possible for the possessor of an
authorisation key to negatively instantiate a key that's under construction.
This is a short duration placeholder that causes any attempt at re-requesting
the key whilst it exists to fail with error ENOKEY if negated or the specified
the key while it exists to fail with error ENOKEY if negated or the specified
error if rejected.
This is provided to prevent excessive repeated spawning of /sbin/request-key