Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: CLONE_NEWUTS documentation | Date | Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:27:29 -0600 |
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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.
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