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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
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