Eric, On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Serge, Eric, >> >> Below is a patch to document the CLONE_NEWUTS flag that was >> added in 2.6.19. >> >> Could you please review and let me know of improvements >> or inaccuracies? >> >> By the way, does anyone know where the UTS name in the uname() >> API comes from? My best guess is that it's from Unix Timesharing >> System, but I don't know this for sure. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael >> >> diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2 >> index 7212332..80f9caf 100644 >> --- a/man2/clone.2 >> +++ b/man2/clone.2 >> @@ -341,6 +340,33 @@ configuration option and that the process be privileged >> This flag can't be specified in conjunction with >> .BR CLONE_THREAD . >> .TP >> +.BR CLONE_NEWUTS " (since Linux 2.6.19)" >> +If >> +.B CLONE_NEWUTS >> +is set, then create the process in a new UTS namespace. >> +If this flag is not set, then (as with >> +.BR fork (2)), >> +the process is created in the same UTS namespace as >> +the calling process. > >> +This flag is intended for the implementation of control groups. > > See my previous email about containers vs control groups. Otherwise, the documentation patch is okay? > There are some corner cases with NFS usage in the kernel that still > need to be resolved but otherwise the uts namespace is considered correct > and complete. Thanks for the info. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
