[PATCH 4/4] setns.2: Document the pid, user, and mount namespace support.

[Eric W. Biederman]

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
---
 man2/setns.2 |   41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/setns.2 b/man2/setns.2
index 6aa01e1..63b04dc 100644
--- a/man2/setns.2
+++ b/man2/setns.2
@@ -48,6 +48,18 @@ must refer to a network namespace.
 .BR CLONE_NEWUTS
 .I fd
 must refer to a UTS namespace.
+.TP
+.BR CLONE_NEWPID
+.I fd
+must refer to a PID namespace.
+.TP
+.BR CLONE_NEWUSER
+.I fd
+must refer to a user namespace.
+.TP
+.BR CLONE_NEWNS
+.I fd
+must refer to a mount namespace.
 .PP
 Specifying
 .I nstype
@@ -63,6 +75,25 @@ and wants to ensure that the namespace is of a particular type.
 .IR fd
 if the file descriptor was opened by another process and, for example,
 passed to the caller via a UNIX domain socket.)
+
+The pid namespace is a little different.  Reassociating the calling
+thread with a pid namespace only changes the pid namespace that the
+child processes will be created in.
+
+Changing the pid namespace for child processes is only allowed if the
+pid namespace specified by
+.IR fd
+is a child pid namespace of the pid namespace of the current thread.
+
+A multi-threaded process may not change user namespace with setns.  A
+process may not reassociate the thread with the current user
+namespace.  The process reassociating itself with a user namespace
+must have CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileges in the target user namespace.
+
+A process may not be reassociated with a new mount namespace if it is
+multi-threaded or it does not possess both CAP_SYS_CHROOT privileges
+and CAP_SYS_ADMIN rights over the target mount namespace.
+
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success,
 .IR setns ()
@@ -94,7 +125,8 @@ for this operation.
 The
 .BR setns ()
 system call first appeared in Linux in kernel 3.0;
-library support was added to glibc in version 2.14.
+library support was added to glibc in version 2.14;
+Support for PID, user and mount namespaces first appeard in Linux in kernel 3.8.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 The
 .BR setns ()
@@ -106,13 +138,6 @@ a new thread is created using
 can be changed using
 .BR setns ().
 .SH BUGS
-The PID namespace and the mount namespace are not currently supported.
-(See the descriptions of
-.BR CLONE_NEWPID
-and
-.BR CLONE_NEWNS
-in
-.BR clone (2).)
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR clone (2),
 .BR fork (2),
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