linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] timens: show clock symbolic names in /proc/pid/timens

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Date:   Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:47:46 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     mtk.manpages@...il.com
Cc:     Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] timens: show clock symbolic names in
 /proc/pid/timens_offsets

On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 07:51:47 +0200 "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrei,
> 
> On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 17:40, Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Michael Kerrisk suggested to replace numeric clock IDs on symbolic
> > names.
> >
> > Now the content of these files looks like this:
> > $ cat /proc/774/timens_offsets
> > monotonic      864000         0
> > boottime      1728000         0
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Assuming no-one has objections to the patch, please do mark for stable@.
> 

`grep -r timens_offsets Documentation' comes up blank.  Is
/proc/pid/timens_offsets documented anywhere?  If not, it should be! 
And this patch should update that documentation.

I assume the time namespace feature itself is documented under clone(2)?