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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2020-06-15 15:04:16 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2020-06-15 16:00:42 +0200
commiteca31e69703c18439d4ee782cf26c16b259b2d80 (patch)
tree20f8f3e8bf49deca9fa8dbac0ba9211f7cb9d18b
parentb93ed8895e3be937f42058ecaf3a1c413ace336a (diff)
downloadman-pages-eca31e69703c18439d4ee782cf26c16b259b2d80.tar.gz
pidfd_open.2: Add the setns(2) use case for PID file descriptors
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man2/pidfd_open.26
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man2/pidfd_open.2 b/man2/pidfd_open.2
index 6188a22946..2007fa1445 100644
--- a/man2/pidfd_open.2
+++ b/man2/pidfd_open.2
@@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ The
.BR pidfd_getfd (2)
system call can be used to obtain a duplicate of a file descriptor
of another process referred to by a PID file descriptor.
+.IP \(bu
+A PID file descriptor can be used as the argument of
+.BR setns (2)
+in order to move into one or more of the same namespaces as the process
+referred to by the file descriptor.
.PP
The
.BR pidfd_open ()
@@ -262,5 +267,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
.BR pidfd_send_signal (2),
.BR poll (2),
.BR select (2),
+.BR setns (2),
.BR waitid (2),
.BR epoll (7)