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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-04-06 10:26:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-04-10 10:14:29 +0200 |
| commit | 1840148b08e115028411d77cc2558aefd4be130b (patch) | |
| tree | afb7c966eb0a24d453a0484d8cef55ed8b17b0bb | |
| parent | 5bed06a99a20e6fe94cbb8aaf173092a9c9fc5d4 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-1840148b08e115028411d77cc2558aefd4be130b.tar.gz | |
time_namespaces.7: Minor wording tweaks
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/time_namespaces.7 | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man7/time_namespaces.7 b/man7/time_namespaces.7 index 28776165a1..dc18a4c4b2 100644 --- a/man7/time_namespaces.7 +++ b/man7/time_namespaces.7 @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ described by POSIX\(em"some unspecified point in the past". .BR CLOCK_BOOTTIME (and likewise .BR CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM ), -a clock that is identical to +a nonsettable clock that is identical to .BR CLOCK_MONOTONIC , except that it also includes any time that the system is suspended. .PP @@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ the children of a process will be created. .SS /proc/PID/timens_offsets Associated with each time namespace are offsets, expressed with respect to the initial time namespace, -that define the values of the monotonic and boot clocks in that namespace. +that define the values of the monotonic and +boot-time clocks in that namespace. These offsets are exposed via the file .IR /proc/PID/timens_offsets . Within this file, @@ -249,14 +250,14 @@ CLOCK_BOOTTIME : 681488.629 (7 days + 21h 18m 8s) .in .PP From the above output, we can see that the monotonic -and boot-time clocks have new values in the new time namespace. +and boot-time clocks have different values in the new time namespace. .PP Examining the .I /proc/[pid]/ns/time and .I /proc/[pid]/ns/time_for_children symbolic links, we see that the shell is a member of the initial time -namespace, but its children are created in a different namespace. +namespace, but its children are created in the new namespace. .PP .in +4n |