From 0dd34252fd0c18ff5202fbfa96046d080f232f24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 21:28:09 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] namespaces.7: srcfix: Quote Eric Biederman on significance of st_dev in ns comparisons Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/namespaces.7 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7 index ddc2bb30e..6f816b5c6 100644 --- a/man7/namespaces.7 +++ b/man7/namespaces.7 @@ -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