From 0b497138b90885361ca2cd1d074403e9ad740708 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 15:33:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] namespaces.7: Add table of namespaces to top of page Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/namespaces.7 | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7 index 759ceefd5..d27f52f4b 100644 --- a/man7/namespaces.7 +++ b/man7/namespaces.7 @@ -33,6 +33,20 @@ Changes to the global resource are visible to other processes that are members of the namespace, but are invisible to other processes. One use of namespaces is to implement containers. +Linux provides the following namespaces: + +.TS +lB lB lB +l lB l. +Namespace Constant Isolates +IPC CLONE_IPC System V IPC, POSIX mesage queues +Network CLONE_NEWNET Network devices, stacks, ports, etc. +Mount CLONE_NEWNS Mount points +PID CLONE_NEWPID Process IDs +User CLONE_NEWUSER User and group IDs +UTS CLONE_NEWUTS Hostname and NIS domain name +.TE + This page describes the various namespaces and the associated .I /proc files, and summarizes the APIs for working with namespaces.