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namespaces.7: srcfix: Quote Eric Biederman on significance of st_dev in ns comparisons
authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Sat, 2 May 2020 19:28:09 +0000 (21:28 +0200)
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Sat, 2 May 2020 19:29:04 +0000 (21:29 +0200)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
man7/namespaces.7

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@@ -197,6 +197,11 @@ then the device IDs and inode numbers of their
 .IR /proc/[pid]/ns/xxx
 symbolic links will be the same; an application can check this using the
 .I stat.st_dev
+.\" Eric Biederman: "I reserve the right for st_dev to be significant
+.\" when comparing namespaces."
+.\" https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87poky5ca9.fsf@xmission.com/
+.\" Re: Documenting the ioctl interfaces to discover relationships...
+.\" Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:30:38 +1300
 and
 .I stat.st_ino
 fields returned by