Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:36:39 +0200 | From | Michael Kerrisk <> | Subject | Re: CLONE_NEWUTS documentation |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > 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.
Thanks Eric.
And a further question: is CLONE_NEWUTS implemented for unshare()?
Cheers,
Michael
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