Container interface: document exposing the host's os-release

[thirdparty/systemd.git] / man / os-release.xml

diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index a2e3d0d8ac52b565062659ded9440add2a7cc4c0..675daf3ede59abd44938323606f21a9350e7f198 100644 (file)
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -339,6 +339,13 @@
     name in order to avoid name clashes. Applications
     reading this file must ignore unknown fields. Example:
     <literal>DEBIAN_BTS="debbugs://bugs.debian.org/"</literal></para>
+
+    <para>Container and sandbox runtime managers may make the host's
+    identification data available to applications by providing the host's
+    <filename>/etc/os-release</filename> and
+    <filename>/usr/lib/os-release</filename> as respectively
+    <filename>/run/host/etc/os-release</filename> and
+    <filename>/run/host/usr/lib/os-release</filename>.</para>
   </refsect1>
 
   <refsect1>