Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755808AbXHFGie (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 02:38:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762292AbXHFGiW (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 02:38:22 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:51726 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1762255AbXHFGiU (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 02:38:20 -0400 X-Authenticated: #24879014 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18JiNU3AU8JhDdABmv53sOhwltp4ARXenoI7+4He5 VKU7ejjbs+LaCd Message-ID: <46B6C177.8040405@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:36:39 +0200 From: Michael Kerrisk User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: "Serge E. Hallyn" , Kirill Korotaev , Herbert Poetzl , Andrey Savochkin , Adrian Bunk , Cedric Le Goater , lkml Subject: Re: CLONE_NEWUTS documentation References: <46B599CA.9030302@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1386 Lines: 43 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Michael Kerrisk 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()? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/ read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/