Hi Eric, On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> wrote: > "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hi Eric, >> >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Eric W. Biederman >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> There is one other bit that needs to be documented in clone, although >>> I am not certain where/how. >>> >>> The sequences: >>> >>> unshare(CLONE_NEWPID). >>> clone(CLONE_VM) >>> >>> setns(fd, CLONE_NEWPID). >>> clone(CLONE_VM). >>> >>> Now fail. >> >> Can you define "now" please. Which kernel version? > > 3.8 > > The sequence was impossible in 3.7. > > I think that change that made that impossible happened in the 3.8-rc1 to > 3.8-rc2 window.
Adding something along these lines to the man page would be fine, but we need some text to explain *why* these sequences fail. Could you send me a sentence or two about that? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
