1uts_namespaces(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual uts_namespaces(7)
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6 uts_namespaces - overview of Linux UTS namespaces
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9 UTS namespaces provide isolation of two system identifiers: the host‐
10 name and the NIS domain name. These identifiers are set using sethost‐
11 name(2) and setdomainname(2), and can be retrieved using uname(2),
12 gethostname(2), and getdomainname(2). Changes made to these identi‐
13 fiers are visible to all other processes in the same UTS namespace, but
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16 When a process creates a new UTS namespace using clone(2) or unshare(2)
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21 Use of UTS namespaces requires a kernel that is configured with the
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26 setns(2), uname(2), unshare(2), namespaces(7)
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