From 19911fa5419ac8cafa08ed9281bcd9083bc6b031 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 20:27:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] clone.2: CLONE_NEWIPC governs mechanisms that don't have filesystem pathnames Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/clone.2 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2 index 75756a0e4..fee382f8f 100644 --- a/man2/clone.2 +++ b/man2/clone.2 @@ -268,6 +268,9 @@ and (since Linux 2.6.30) POSIX message queues (see .BR mq_overview (7)). +The common characteristic of these IPC mechanisms is that IPC +objects are identified by mechanisms other than filesystem +pathnames. Objects created in an IPC namespace are visible to all other processes that are members of that namespace,