[PATCH V4 4/8] Documentation: add a section for /proc/<pid>/ns/

--- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index ddc531a..c4bfd6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Table of Contents 3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm 3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children 3.8 /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> - Information about opened file + 3.9 /proc/<pid>/ns/<ns>{,_snum} - Information about process namespaces 4 Configuring procfs 4.1 Mount options @@ -1744,6 +1745,21 @@ pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent. optional and may be omitted if no marks created yet. +3.9 /proc/<pid>/ns/<nstype>{,_snum} - Information about process namespaces +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +These files provides information about the namespaces within which the process +is contained. The files named only with the namespace type <nstype> contain a +link that lists the containing namespace' inode number in its proc filesystem. +The files with suffix _snum contain a link that lists the containing +namespace' instance serial number, unique per kernel since boot. The +namespace types are self-describing. + +The output format of the inode links is: + <nstype>:[<inode_number>] +The output format of the serial number links is: + <nstype>_snum:[<serial_number>] + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Configuring procfs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 1.7.1