Re: [PATCH 3/4] proc.5: Document the proc files for the user, mount, and pid namespaces.

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Hi Eric,

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael


> ---
>  man5/proc.5 |   52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
> index 840480d..eb612b9 100644
> --- a/man5/proc.5
> +++ b/man5/proc.5
> @@ -581,6 +581,58 @@ even if all processes in the namespace terminate.
>  The file descriptor can be passed to
>  .BR setns (2).
>  .TP
> +.IR /proc/[pid]/ns/user " (since Linux 3.8)"
> +Bind mounting this file (see
> +.BR mount (2))
> +to somewhere else in the filesystem keeps
> +the user namespace of the process specified by
> +.I pid
> +alive even if all processes currently in the namespace terminate.
> +
> +Opening this file returns a file handle for the user namespace
> +of the process specified by
> +.IR pid .
> +As long as this file descriptor remains open,
> +the user namespace will remain alive,
> +even if all processes in the namespace terminate.
> +The file descriptor can be passed to
> +.BR setns (2).
> +.TP
> +.IR /proc/[pid]/ns/pid " (since Linux 3.8)"
> +Bind mounting this file (see
> +.BR mount (2))
> +to somewhere else in the filesystem keeps
> +the PID namespace of the process specified by
> +.I pid
> +alive even if all processes currently in the namespace terminate.
> +
> +Opening this file returns a file handle for the PID namespace
> +of the process specified by
> +.IR pid .
> +As long as this file descriptor remains open,
> +the PID namespace will remain alive,
> +even if all processes in the namespace terminate.
> +The file descriptor can be passed to
> +.BR setns (2).
> +.TP
> +.IR /proc/[pid]/ns/mnt " (since Linux 3.8)"
> +Bind mounting this file (see
> +.BR mount (2))
> +to somewhere else in the filesystem keeps
> +the mount namespace of the process specified by
> +.I pid
> +alive even if all processes currently in the namespace terminate.
> +
> +Opening this file returns a file handle for the mount namespace
> +of the process specified by
> +.IR pid .
> +As long as this file descriptor remains open,
> +the mount namespace will remain alive,
> +even if all processes in the namespace terminate.
> +The file descriptor can be passed to
> +.BR setns (2).
> +
> +.TP
>  .IR /proc/[pid]/numa_maps " (since Linux 2.6.14)"
>  See
>  .BR numa (7).
> --
> 1.7.5.4
>



-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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