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[87.106.108.193]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4b433ebd278sm402285e9.3.2026.11.03.12.22.50 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:22:50 -0800 (PST) From: =?UTF-8?q?G=C3=BCnther=20Noack?= To: Alejandro Colomar Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima , =?UTF-8?q?G=C3=BCnther=20Noack?= , linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v2 8/8] man/man7/unix.7: Remove mentions of "namespace" in the general sense Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 21:22:10 +0100 Message-ID: <20261103202211.13820-9-gnoack3000@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.56.0 In-Reply-To: <20261103202211.13820-1-gnoack3000@gmail.com> References: <20261103202211.13820-1-gnoack3000@gmail.com> X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In unix(7), the word "namespace" is often used in the general sense of the word, which becomes confusing now that the man page also discusses its interaction with the Linux namespace concept (see namespaces(7)). Remove the remaining uses of the word "namespace" in the places where it is not referring to Linux namespaces. Signed-off-by: Günther Noack --- man/man7/unix.7 | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/man7/unix.7 b/man/man7/unix.7 index 1b4cd242657d..b8a0b2aca458 100644 --- a/man/man7/unix.7 +++ b/man/man7/unix.7 @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION efficiently. Traditionally, UNIX domain sockets can be either unnamed, or bound to a filesystem pathname (marked as being of type socket). -Linux also supports an abstract namespace which is independent of the -filesystem. +Linux also supports an abstract socket addressing scheme, +which is independent of the filesystem. .P Valid socket types in the UNIX domain are: .BR SOCK_STREAM , @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ .SS Address format by the fact that .I sun_path[0] is a null byte (\[aq]\[rs]0\[aq]). -The socket's address in this namespace is given by the additional +The socket's address is given by the additional bytes in .I sun_path that are covered by the specified length of the address structure. @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ .SS Socket options ancillary data. .IP When this option is set on a socket that is not bound to an address, -the socket is autobound to a unique name in the abstract namespace +the socket is autobound to a unique abstract socket name when .BR connect (2) or @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ .SS Socket options As with .BR SO_PASSCRED , when this option is set on a socket that is not bound to an address, -the socket is autobound to a unique name in the abstract namespace +the socket is autobound to a unique abstract socket name when .BR connect (2) or @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ .SH ERRORS See the appropriate manual pages for more information. .SH VERSIONS .B SCM_CREDENTIALS -and the abstract namespace were introduced with Linux 2.2 and should not +and abstract sockets were introduced with Linux 2.2 and should not be used in portable programs. (Some BSD-derived systems also support credential passing, but the implementation details differ.) -- 2.56.0