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user_namespaces.7: Note that user namespaces isolate the root directory 

Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -29,9 +29,11 @@ user_namespaces \- overview of Linux user_namespaces
For an overview of namespaces, see
.BR namespaces (7).
User namespaces isolate security-related identifiers, in particular,
User namespaces isolate security-related identifiers and attributes,
in particular,
user IDs and group IDs (see
.BR credentials (7),
the root directory,
keys (see
.BR keyctl (2)),
.\" FIXME: This page says very little about the interaction
@ -126,6 +128,7 @@ user namespace,
even if the new namespace is created or joined by the root user
(i.e., a process with user ID 0 in the root namespace).
Note that a call to
.BR execve (2)
will cause a process to lose any capabilities that it has,