- spell abbreviations with capital letters - fix the names of a few options and files Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> --- This one is actually unchanged from v1. sys-utils/nsenter.1 | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git sys-utils/nsenter.1 sys-utils/nsenter.1 index 4a6a34d..37c46d7 100644 --- sys-utils/nsenter.1 +++ sys-utils/nsenter.1 @@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ nsenter \- run program with namespaces of other processes .RI [ program ] .RI [ arguments ] .SH DESCRIPTION -Enters the contexts of one or more other processes and then executes specified +Enters the namespaces of one or more other processes and then executes the specified program. Enterable namespaces are: .TP .B mount namespace mounting and unmounting filesystems will not affect rest of the system .RB ( CLONE_\:NEWNS flag), except for filesystems which are explicitly marked as shared (by mount ---make-\:shared). See /proc\:/self\:/mountinfo for the shared flags. +--make-\:shared). See /proc\:/self\:/mountinfo for the shared flag. .TP .B UTS namespace setting hostname, domainname will not affect rest of the system @@ -37,13 +37,19 @@ directory trees, sockets etc. .RB ( CLONE_\:NEWNET flag). .TP -.B pid namespace -children will have a distinct set of pid to process mappings thantheir parent. +.B PID namespace +children will have a set of PID to process mappings separate from the +.B nsenter +process .RB ( CLONE_\:NEWPID flag). +.B nsenter +will fork by default if changing the PID namespace, so that the new program +and its children share the same PID namespace and are visible to each other. +If \-\-no\-fork is used, the new program will be exec'ed without forking. .TP .B user namespace -process will have distinct set of uids, gids and capabilities. +process will have distinct set of UIDs, GIDs and capabilities .RB ( CLONE_\:NEWUSER flag). .TP @@ -71,16 +77,16 @@ are: the mount namespace .TP /proc/\fIpid\fR/ns/uts -the uts namespace +the UTS namespace .TP /proc/\fIpid\fR/ns/ipc -the ipc namespace +the IPC namespace .TP /proc/\fIpid\fR/ns/net -the ipc namespace +the network namespace .TP /proc/\fIpid\fR/ns/pid -the pid namespace +the PID namespace .TP /proc/\fIpid\fR/ns/user the user namespace @@ -88,7 +94,7 @@ the user namespace /proc/\fIpid\fR/root the root directory .TP -/proc/\fIpid\fR/cw +/proc/\fIpid\fR/cwd the working directory respectively .PD .RE @@ -99,13 +105,13 @@ of the target process. If file is specified enter the mount namespace specified by file. .TP \fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-uts\fR [\fIfile\fR] -Enter the uts namespace. If no file is specified enter the uts namespace of -the target process. If file is specified enter the uts namespace specified by +Enter the UTS namespace. If no file is specified enter the UTS namespace of +the target process. If file is specified enter the UTS namespace specified by file. .TP \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-ipc\fR [\fIfile\fR] Enter the IPC namespace. If no file is specified enter the IPC namespace of -the target process. If file is specified enter the uts namespace specified by +the target process. If file is specified enter the IPC namespace specified by file. .TP \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-net\fR [\fIfile\fR] @@ -114,8 +120,8 @@ namespace of the target process. If file is specified enter the network namespace specified by file. .TP \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-pid\fR [\fIfile\fR] -Enter the pid namespace. If no file is specified enter the pid namespace of -the target process. If file is specified enter the pid namespace specified by +Enter the PID namespace. If no file is specified enter the PID namespace of +the target process. If file is specified enter the PID namespace specified by file. .TP \fB\-U\fR, \fB\-\-user\fR [\fIfile\fR] -- 1.8.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
