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()? 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
