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| -rw-r--r-- | man7/namespaces.7 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7 index 6dc8913806..c755545755 100644 --- a/man7/namespaces.7 +++ b/man7/namespaces.7 @@ -378,8 +378,10 @@ By applying to the returned file descriptor, one obtains a .I stat structure whose +.I st_dev +(resident device) and .I st_ino -(inode number) field identifies the owning/parent namespace. +(inode number) fields together identify the owning/parent namespace. This inode number can be matched with the inode number of another .IR /proc/[pid]/ns/{pid,user} file to determine whether that is the owning/parent namespace. |