Namespaces in operation, part 2: the namespaces API

Posted Mar 3, 2015 6:40 UTC (Tue) by apollock (subscriber, #14629)
Parent article: Namespaces in operation, part 2: the namespaces API

I'm curious. If you bind mount the /proc/PID/ns/uts entry, and then the original process goes away, is that PID available for reuse?

I presume the answer is yes, and the new /proc/PID just winds up with a completely unrelated inode from the old one.

Posted Jan 30, 2020 1:09 UTC (Thu) by mkerrisk (subscriber, #1978) [Link]

> I presume the answer is yes, and the new
> /proc/PID just winds up with a completely
> unrelated inode from the old one.

That's correct.