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| author | Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> | 2010-10-30 07:52:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-10-30 07:52:36 +0200 |
| commit | 61f22790e161346b309b2b0e12eb4ec771155f98 (patch) | |
| tree | bb705e64c2219c1a8c67ed89e26c559041f384f5 | |
| parent | 52e27aeb24d87d47bed893180dfc50bd6853ad46 (diff) | |
unshare.2: Improve description of CLONE_NEWNET
CLONE_NEWNET creates a new network namespace from scratch.
You don't have anything from the old network namespace in
the new one. Even the loopback device is new.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/unshare.2 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man2/unshare.2 b/man2/unshare.2 index db2e3536..27df76fd 100644 --- a/man2/unshare.2 +++ b/man2/unshare.2 @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" by clone, which would require porting and maintaining all commands .\" such as login, and su, that establish a user session. .\" -.TH UNSHARE 2 2010-10-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH UNSHARE 2 2010-10-30 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME unshare \- disassociate parts of the process execution context .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -95,8 +95,9 @@ This flag has the same effect as the .B CLONE_NEWNET flag. Unshare the network namespace, -so that the calling process has a private copy of the -network namespace which is not shared with any other process. +so that the calling process is moved into a +new network namespace which is not shared +with any previously existing process. .BR CLONE_NEWNET requires the .BR CAP_SYS_ADMIN |