Re: [PATCH 0/5 RFC] Add an interface to discover relationships between namespaces

[Andrew Vagin]

 On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 04:41:12PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Andrey,
> 
> On 07/14/2016 08:20 PM, Andrey Vagin wrote:

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> 
> Could you add here an of the API in detail: what do these FDs refer to,
> and how do you use them to solve the use case? And could you you add
> that info to the commit messages please.

Hi Michael,

A patch for man-pages is attached. It adds the following text to
namespaces(7).

Since  Linux 4.X, the following ioctl(2) calls are supported for namesâ
pace file descriptors.  The correct syntax is:

      fd = ioctl(ns_fd, ioctl_type);

where ioctl_type is one of the following:

NS_GET_USERNS
      Returns a file descriptor that refers to an owning  user  namesâ
      pace.

NS_GET_PARENT
      Returns  a  file  descriptor  that refers to a parent namespace.
      This ioctl(2) can be used for pid and user namespaces. For  user
      namespaces,  NS_GET_PARENT and NS_GET_USERNS have the same meanâ
      ing.

In addition to generic ioctl(2) errors, the following specific ones can
occur:

EINVAL NS_GET_PARENT was called for a nonhierarchical namespace.

EPERM  The  requested  namespace  is  outside  of the current namespace
      scope.

ENOENT ns_fd refers to the init namespace.

Thanks,
Andrew

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/6/158
> > [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/9/101
> > 
> > Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "W. Trevor King" <wking@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
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> > 2.5.5
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> Michael Kerrisk
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