From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>,
Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CLONE_NEWUTS documentation
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:27:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1abt6kvym.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B599CA.9030302@gmx.net> (Michael Kerrisk's message of "Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:35:06 +0200")
Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> 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.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-05 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-05 9:35 CLONE_NEWUTS documentation Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-05 12:27 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-08-06 6:36 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-06 12:49 ` Serge E. Hallyn
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2008-11-19 19:11 Michael Kerrisk
2008-11-19 19:11 ` Michael Kerrisk
[not found] ` <492464F8.8070101-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-20 1:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-20 1:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-20 11:51 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-11-23 22:47 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-11-23 22:47 ` Serge E. Hallyn
[not found] ` <20081123224708.GC12687-A9i7LUbDfNHQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-24 23:14 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-11-24 23:14 ` Michael Kerrisk
[not found] ` <cfd18e0f0811241514l121ecdb9l3e424f45df78e5b8-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-24 23:45 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-11-24 23:45 ` Serge E. Hallyn
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