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1 .\" Man page for the lsns command.
2 .\" Copyright 2015 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
3 .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
4
5 .TH LSNS 8 "December 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration"
6 .SH NAME
7 lsns \- list namespaces
8 .SH SYNOPSIS
9 .B lsns
10 [options]
11 .RI [ namespace ]
12
13 .SH DESCRIPTION
14 .B lsns
15 lists information about all the currently accessible namespaces or about the
16 given \fInamespace\fP. The \fInamespace\fP identifier is an inode number.
17
18 The default output is subject to change. So whenever possible, you should
19 avoid using default outputs in your scripts. Always explicitly define expected
20 columns by using the \fB\-\-output\fR option together with a columns list in
21 environments where a stable output is required.
22
23 Note that \fBlsns\fR reads information directly from the /proc filesystem and
24 for non-root users it may return incomplete information. The current /proc
25 filesystem may be unshared and affected by a PID namespace
26 (see \fBunshare \-\-mount\-proc\fP for more details).
27 .B lsns
28 is not able to see persistent namespaces without processes where the namespace
29 instance is held by a bind mount to /proc/\fIpid\fR/ns/\fItype\fR.
30
31 .SH OPTIONS
32 .TP
33 .BR \-J , " \-\-json"
34 Use JSON output format.
35 .TP
36 .BR \-l , " \-\-list"
37 Use list output format.
38 .TP
39 .BR \-n , " \-\-noheadings"
40 Do not print a header line.
41 .TP
42 .BR \-o , " \-\-output " \fIlist\fP
43 Specify which output columns to print. Use \fB\-\-help\fR
44 to get a list of all supported columns.
45
46 The default list of columns may be extended if \fIlist\fP is
47 specified in the format \fB+\fIlist\fP (e.g. \fBlsns \-o +PATH\fP).
48 .TP
49 .BR \-p , " \-\-task " \fIpid\fP
50 Display only the namespaces held by the process with this \fIpid\fR.
51 .TP
52 .BR \-r , " \-\-raw"
53 Use the raw output format.
54 .TP
55 .BR \-t , " \-\-type " \fItype\fP
56 Display the specified \fItype\fP of namespaces only. The supported types are
57 \fBmnt\fP, \fBnet\fP, \fBipc\fP, \fBuser\fP, \fBpid\fP, \fButs\fP and
58 \fBcgroup\fP. This option may be given more than once.
59 .TP
60 .BR \-u , " \-\-notruncate"
61 Do not truncate text in columns.
62 .TP
63 .BR \-V , " \-\-version"
64 Display version information and exit.
65 .TP
66 .BR \-h , " \-\-help"
67 Display help text and exit.
68
69 .SH AUTHORS
70 .nf
71 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
72 .fi
73
74 .SH "SEE ALSO"
75 .BR nsenter (1),
76 .BR unshare (1),
77 .BR clone (2),
78 .BR namespaces (7)
79
80 .SH AVAILABILITY
81 The lsns command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
82 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.