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Message-ID: <5505A353.5090405@cogentembedded.com>
Date:	Sun, 15 Mar 2015 18:20:51 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:	Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] man ip-netns: Notice about loose device when
 do 'del'

Hello.

On 3/15/2015 1:57 PM, Vadim Kochan wrote:

> From: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@...il.com>

    Noticed a few typos...

> Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@...il.com>
> ---
>   man/man8/ip-netns.8 | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
>   1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/man/man8/ip-netns.8 b/man/man8/ip-netns.8
> index 28a9544..062564d 100644
> --- a/man/man8/ip-netns.8
> +++ b/man/man8/ip-netns.8
> @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ ip-netns \- process network namespace management
>   A network namespace is logically another copy of the network stack,
>   with its own routes, firewall rules, and network devices.
>
> +By default process inherites network namespace from its parent. Initially all

    s/inherites/inherits/.

> +the processes shares the same default network namespace from the init process.

    s/shares/share/.

> +
>   By convention a named network namespace is an object at
>   .BR "/var/run/netns/" NAME
>   that can be opened.  The file descriptor resulting from opening
> @@ -88,14 +91,30 @@ network namespace and assigns NAME.
>   .sp
>   If NAME is present in /var/run/netns it is umounted and the mount
>   point is removed.  If this is the last user of the network namespace the
> -network namespace will be freed, otherwise the network namespace
> -persists until it has no more users.  ip netns delete may fail if
> -the mount point is in use in another mount namespace.
> +network namespace will be freed and all physical devices will be moved to the
> +default one, otherwise the network namespace persists until it has no more
> +users. ip netns delete may fail if the mount point is in use in another mount
> +namespace.
>
>   If
>   .B -all
>   option was specified then all the network namespace names will be removed.
>
> +It is possible to "loose" the physical device when it was moved to netns and

    Not "lose"?

> +then this netns was deleted with a running process:

[...]

WBR, Sergei

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