Quoting Michael Kerrisk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Michael Kerrisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Hello Serge, > >> > >> In 2.6.19, your patch to add support for CLONE_NEWUTS was included. Is > >> there there some for-userland-programmers documentation of this flag > >> somewhere? Would you be able to send some documentation to me (ideally as > >> a patch to the clone.2 man page, but otherwise some plain text will do). > >> > >> If this flag is also supported for unshare(), then could you please send me > >> a patch/text for that too? > > > > Again a short summary > > > > The utsname namespace encapsulates the global kernel identification stored > > in struct utsname returned from uname(2). > > > > It is a very trivial namespace but it allows you to set multiple hostnames > > and nis domainnames on the same machine. > > Thanks Eric. > > And a further question: is CLONE_NEWUTS implemented for unshare()?
Yes, it is. And unlike CLONE_FS but like CONE_NEWNS, it has the same meaning for unshare as for clone. thanks, -serge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
