linux-kernel - Re: CLONE_NEWIPC documentation

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Message-ID: <cfd18e0f0811200828x5c1752dcmef1cd6d52bdc08ce@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:28:14 -0500
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>
To:	"Cedric Le Goater" <clg@...ibm.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Kirill Korotaev" <dev@...nvz.org>,
	"Pavel Emelianov" <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CLONE_NEWIPC documentation

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com> wrote:
> Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> Cedric,
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com> wrote:
>>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>> Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Kirill, Pavel,
>>>>>
>>>>> Below is a patch to document the CLONE_NEWIPC flag that was
>>>>> added in 2.6.19.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you please review and let me know of improvements
>>>>> or inaccuracies?
>>> I would also add that an interesting effect of the sysvipc namespace is
>>> the automatic cleanup of sysvipc objects when the namespace is destroyed.
>>
>> And the namespace is destroyed, when the last proces in the namespace
>> terminates, right?
>
> exactly.

Thanks Cedric.  I've added that point to the documentation.

Cheers,

Michael


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