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| -rw-r--r-- | man7/namespaces.7 | 7 |
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diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7 index 725ebaff6a..3c155de7ec 100644 --- a/man7/namespaces.7 +++ b/man7/namespaces.7 @@ -154,11 +154,14 @@ In Linux 3.7 and earlier, these files were visible as hard links. Since Linux 3.8, .\" commit bf056bfa80596a5d14b26b17276a56a0dcb080e5 they appear as symbolic links. -If two processes are in the same namespace, then the inode numbers of their +If two processes are in the same namespace, +then the device IDs and inode numbers of their .IR /proc/[pid]/ns/xxx symbolic links will be the same; an application can check this using the +.I stat.st_dev +and .I stat.st_ino -field returned by +fields returned by .BR stat (2). The content of this symbolic link is a string containing the namespace type and inode number as in the following example: |