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SubjectRe: CLONE_NEWUTS documentation


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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