time_namespaces.7: Minor wording tweaks

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2020-04-06 10:26:10 +02:00
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@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ described by POSIX\(em"some unspecified point in the past".
.BR CLOCK_BOOTTIME
(and likewise
.BR CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM ),
a clock that is identical to
a nonsettable clock that is identical to
.BR CLOCK_MONOTONIC ,
except that it also includes any time that the system is suspended.
.PP
@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ the children of a process will be created.
.SS /proc/PID/timens_offsets
Associated with each time namespace are offsets,
expressed with respect to the initial time namespace,
that define the values of the monotonic and boot clocks in that namespace.
that define the values of the monotonic and
boot-time clocks in that namespace.
These offsets are exposed via the file
.IR /proc/PID/timens_offsets .
Within this file,
@ -249,14 +250,14 @@ CLOCK_BOOTTIME : 681488.629 (7 days + 21h 18m 8s)
.in
.PP
From the above output, we can see that the monotonic
and boot-time clocks have new values in the new time namespace.
and boot-time clocks have different values in the new time namespace.
.PP
Examining the
.I /proc/[pid]/ns/time
and
.I /proc/[pid]/ns/time_for_children
symbolic links, we see that the shell is a member of the initial time
namespace, but its children are created in a different namespace.
namespace, but its children are created in the new namespace.
.PP
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