namespaces.7: srcfix: Quote Eric Biederman on significance of st_dev in ns comparisons

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2020-05-02 21:28:09 +02:00
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@ -197,6 +197,11 @@ then the device IDs and inode numbers of their
.IR /proc/[pid]/ns/xxx
symbolic links will be the same; an application can check this using the
.I stat.st_dev
.\" Eric Biederman: "I reserve the right for st_dev to be significant
.\" when comparing namespaces."
.\" https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87poky5ca9.fsf@xmission.com/
.\" Re: Documenting the ioctl interfaces to discover relationships...
.\" Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:30:38 +1300
and
.I stat.st_ino
fields returned by