LDP
/
man-pages
mirror of https://github.com/mkerrisk/man-pages
0
1
Fork 0
Code Releases Activity

namespaces.7: Some tweaks to Kirill Tkhai's text on pid_for_children 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Kerrisk 2017-05-23 21:34:39 +02:00
parent 99e2f75239
commit 97a1e5b272
1 changed files with 13 additions and 5 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

18
man7/namespaces.7
View File

@ -187,14 +187,22 @@ This file is a handle for the network namespace of the process.
.TP
.IR /proc/[pid]/ns/pid " (since Linux 3.8)"
.\" commit 57e8391d327609cbf12d843259c968b9e5c1838f
This file is a handle for the PID namespace of the process. It's
permanent during the whole process life.
This file is a handle for the PID namespace of the process.
This handle is permanent for the lifetime of the process
(i.e., a process's PID namespace membership never changes).
.TP
.IR /proc/[pid]/ns/pid_for_children " (since Linux 4.12)"
.\" commit eaa0d190bfe1ed891b814a52712dcd852554cb08
This file is a handle for the PID namespace of a next born child
of the process. It's changed after unshare(2) and via setns(2),
so the file may differ from /proc/[pid]/ns/pid.
This file is a handle for the PID namespace of
child processes created by this process.
This can change as a consequence of calls to
.BR unshare (2)
and
.BR setns (2)
(see
.BR pid_namespaces (7)),
so the file may differ from
.IR /proc/[pid]/ns/pid .
.TP
.IR /proc/[pid]/ns/user " (since Linux 3.8)"
.\" commit cde1975bc242f3e1072bde623ef378e547b73f91