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docs: proc.rst: mountinfo: improved field numbering
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Without reading thoroughly, one could easily oversee that there may be several
fields after #6.
Made it more clearly by changing the field numbering.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211007040001.103413-2-mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Expand Up @@ -1857,19 +1857,19 @@ For example::
This file contains lines of the form::

36 35 98:0 /mnt1 /mnt2 rw,noatime master:1 - ext3 /dev/root rw,errors=continue
(1)(2)(3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11)
(1)(2)(3) (4) (5) (6) (n…m) (m+1)(m+2) (m+3) (m+4)

(1) mount ID: unique identifier of the mount (may be reused after umount)
(2) parent ID: ID of parent (or of self for the top of the mount tree)
(3) major:minor: value of st_dev for files on filesystem
(4) root: root of the mount within the filesystem
(5) mount point: mount point relative to the process's root
(6) mount options: per mount options
(7) optional fields: zero or more fields of the form "tag[:value]"
(8) separator: marks the end of the optional fields
(9) filesystem type: name of filesystem of the form "type[.subtype]"
(10) mount source: filesystem specific information or "none"
(11) super options: per super block options
(n…m) optional fields: zero or more fields of the form "tag[:value]"
(m+1) separator: marks the end of the optional fields
(m+2) filesystem type: name of filesystem of the form "type[.subtype]"
(m+3) mount source: filesystem specific information or "none"
(m+4) super options: per super block options

Parsers should ignore all unrecognised optional fields. Currently the
possible optional fields are:
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