NAMESPACE(6) NAMESPACE(6)
NAME
namespace - name space description file
DESCRIPTION
Namespace files describe how to construct a name space from
scratch, an operation normally performed by the newns or
addns subroutines (see auth(2)) which is typically called by
init(8). Each line specifies one name space operation.
Spaces and tabs separate arguments to operations. Blank
lines and lines with # as the first non-space character are
ignored. Environment variables of the form $name are
expanded within arguments, where name is a UTF string termi-
nated by white space, a /, or a $.
The known operations and their arguments are:
mount [-abcC] servename old [spec]
Mount servename on old.
bind [-abcC] new old
Bind new on old.
cd dir
Change the working directory to dir.
unmount [new] old
Unmount new from old, or everything mounted on old if new
is missing.
chdev [-nr] devmask
Devmask defines a string of driver characters to restrict
the current namespace to. Existing binds of drivers are
left unaffected.
clear
Clear the name space with rfork(RFCNAMEG).
. path
Execute the namespace file path. Note that path must be
present in the name space being built.
The options for bind and mount are interpreted as in
bind(1).
SEE ALSO
bind(1), namespace(4), init(8), chdev(1)
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