NS_GET_OWNER_UID - discovering the owner of a user namespace
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Description
The NS_GET_OWNER_UID operation can be used to discover the owner user ID of a user namespace (i.e., the
effective user ID of the process that created the user namespace).
fd refers to a /proc/pid/ns/user file.
The owner user ID is returned in the uid_t pointed to by the third argument.
Errors
EINVALfd does not refer to a user namespace.
History
Linux 4.11.
Name
NS_GET_OWNER_UID - discovering the owner of a user namespace
Return Value
On success, 0 is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.
See Also
ioctl(2), ioctl_nsfs(2) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-06-13 NS_GET_OWNER_UID(2const)
Standards
Linux.
Synopsis
#include<linux/nsfs.h> /* Definition of NS_GET_OWNER_UID */
#include<sys/ioctl.h>intioctl(intfd,NS_GET_OWNER_UID,uid_t*uid);