On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Casey Rodarmor <ca...@rodarmor.com> wrote: > Hi 9 fans, > > I'm trying to figure out how namespace inheritance between process groups > works. > > Let's say I have a process A which forks a child process B with the > RFNAMEG so it receives a copy of A's namespace. > > If process A then makes a change to its namespace, will process B see > that change? Or does B receive a distinct copy that A then can't > change? > > Thanks! > > Best, > Casey
Also, whatever the answer is, how can I test this for myself? I was struggling to come up with a combination of commands, short of writing some C programs, which would let me have two interactive rc shells that inherit from one another, since rc doesn't have job control and new rio windows are in a new process group.
