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CLONE(2) Linux Programmer's Manual CLONE(2)
clone, __clone2 - create a child process
/* Prototype for the glibc wrapper function */
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <sched.h>
int clone(int (*fn)(void *), void *child_stack,
int flags, void *arg, ...
/* pid_t *ptid, void *newtls, pid_t *ctid */ );
/* For the prototype of the raw system call, see NOTES */
clone() creates a new process, in a manner similar to fork(2).
This page describes both the glibc clone() wrapper function and the
underlying system call on which it is based. The main text describes
the wrapper function; the differences for the raw system call are
described toward the end of this page.
Unlike fork(2), clone() allows the child process to share parts of
its execution context with the calling process, such as the memory
space, the table of file descriptors, and the table of signal
handlers. (Note that on this manual page, "calling process" normally
corresponds to "parent process". But see the description of
CLONE_PARENT below.)
One use of clone() is to implement threads: multiple threads of
control in a program that run concurrently in a shared memory space.
When the child process is created with clone(), it executes the
function fn(arg). (This differs from fork(2), where execution
continues in the child from the point of the fork(2) call.) The fn
argument is a pointer to a function that is called by the child
process at the beginning of its execution. The arg argument is
passed to the fn function.
When the fn(arg) function application returns, the child process
terminates. The integer returned by fn is the exit code for the
child process. The child process may also terminate explicitly by
calling exit(2) or after receiving a fatal signal.
The child_stack argument specifies the location of the stack used by
the child process. Since the child and calling process may share
memory, it is not possible for the child process to execute in the
same stack as the calling process. The calling process must
therefore set up memory space for the child stack and pass a pointer
to this space to clone(). Stacks grow downward on all processors
that run Linux (except the HP PA processors), so child_stack usually
points to the topmost address of the memory space set up for the
child stack.
The low byte of flags contains the number of the termination signal
sent to the parent when the child dies. If this signal is specified
as anything other than SIGCHLD, then the parent process must specify
the __WALL or __WCLONE options when waiting for the child with
wait(2). If no signal is specified, then the parent process is not
signaled when the child terminates.
flags may also be bitwise-or'ed with zero or more of the following
constants, in order to specify what is shared between the calling
process and the child process:
CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID (since Linux 2.5.49)
Clear (zero) the child thread ID at the location ctid in child
memory when the child exits, and do a wakeup on the futex at
that address. The address involved may be changed by the
set_tid_address(2) system call. This is used by threading
libraries.
CLONE_CHILD_SETTID (since Linux 2.5.49)
Store the child thread ID at the location ctid in the child's
memory. The store operation completes before clone() returns
control to user space.
CLONE_FILES (since Linux 2.0)
If CLONE_FILES is set, the calling process and the child
process share the same file descriptor table. Any file
descriptor created by the calling process or by the child
process is also valid in the other process. Similarly, if one
of the processes closes a file descriptor, or changes its
associated flags (using the fcntl(2) F_SETFD operation), the
other process is also affected. If a process sharing a file
descriptor table calls execve(2), its file descriptor table is
duplicated (unshared).
If CLONE_FILES is not set, the child process inherits a copy
of all file descriptors opened in the calling process at the
time of clone(). Subsequent operations that open or close
file descriptors, or change file descriptor flags, performed
by either the calling process or the child process do not
affect the other process. Note, however, that the duplicated
file descriptors in the child refer to the same open file
descriptions as the corresponding file descriptors in the
calling process, and thus share file offsets and file status
flags (see open(2)).
CLONE_FS (since Linux 2.0)
If CLONE_FS is set, the caller and the child process share the
same filesystem information. This includes the root of the
filesystem, the current working directory, and the umask. Any
call to chroot(2), chdir(2), or umask(2) performed by the
calling process or the child process also affects the other
process.
If CLONE_FS is not set, the child process works on a copy of
the filesystem information of the calling process at the time
of the clone() call. Calls to chroot(2), chdir(2), umask(2)
performed later by one of the processes do not affect the
other process.
CLONE_IO (since Linux 2.6.25)
If CLONE_IO is set, then the new process shares an I/O context
with the calling process. If this flag is not set, then (as
with fork(2)) the new process has its own I/O context.
The I/O context is the I/O scope of the disk scheduler (i.e.,
what the I/O scheduler uses to model scheduling of a process's
I/O). If processes share the same I/O context, they are
treated as one by the I/O scheduler. As a consequence, they
get to share disk time. For some I/O schedulers, if two
processes share an I/O context, they will be allowed to
interleave their disk access. If several threads are doing
I/O on behalf of the same process (aio_read(3), for instance),
they should employ CLONE_IO to get better I/O performance.
If the kernel is not configured with the CONFIG_BLOCK option,
this flag is a no-op.
CLONE_NEWCGROUP (since Linux 4.6)
Create the process in a new cgroup namespace. If this flag is
not set, then (as with fork(2)) the process is created in the
same cgroup namespaces as the calling process. This flag is
intended for the implementation of containers.
For further information on cgroup namespaces, see
cgroup_namespaces(7).
Only a privileged process (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) can employ
CLONE_NEWCGROUP.
CLONE_NEWIPC (since Linux 2.6.19)
If CLONE_NEWIPC is set, then create the process in a new IPC
namespace. If this flag is not set, then (as with fork(2)),
the process is created in the same IPC namespace as the
calling process. This flag is intended for the implementation
of containers.
An IPC namespace provides an isolated view of System V IPC
objects (see svipc(7)) and (since Linux 2.6.30) POSIX message
queues (see mq_overview(7)). The common characteristic of
these IPC mechanisms is that IPC objects are identified by
mechanisms other than filesystem pathnames.
Objects created in an IPC namespace are visible to all other
processes that are members of that namespace, but are not
visible to processes in other IPC namespaces.
When an IPC namespace is destroyed (i.e., when the last
process that is a member of the namespace terminates), all IPC
objects in the namespace are automatically destroyed.
Only a privileged process (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) can employ
CLONE_NEWIPC. This flag can't be specified in conjunction
with CLONE_SYSVSEM.
For further information on IPC namespaces, see namespaces(7).
CLONE_NEWNET (since Linux 2.6.24)
(The implementation of this flag was completed only by about
kernel version 2.6.29.)
If CLONE_NEWNET is set, then create the process in a new
network namespace. If this flag is not set, then (as with
fork(2)) the process is created in the same network namespace
as the calling process. This flag is intended for the
implementation of containers.
A network namespace provides an isolated view of the
networking stack (network device interfaces, IPv4 and IPv6
protocol stacks, IP routing tables, firewall rules, the
/proc/net and /sys/class/net directory trees, sockets, etc.).
A physical network device can live in exactly one network
namespace. A virtual network device ("veth") pair provides a
pipe-like abstraction that can be used to create tunnels
between network namespaces, and can be used to create a bridge
to a physical network device in another namespace.
When a network namespace is freed (i.e., when the last process
in the namespace terminates), its physical network devices are
moved back to the initial network namespace (not to the parent
of the process). For further information on network
namespaces, see namespaces(7).
Only a privileged process (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) can employ
CLONE_NEWNET.
CLONE_NEWNS (since Linux 2.4.19)
If CLONE_NEWNS is set, the cloned child is started in a new
mount namespace, initialized with a copy of the namespace of
the parent. If CLONE_NEWNS is not set, the child lives in the
same mount namespace as the parent.
Only a privileged process (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) can employ
CLONE_NEWNS. It is not permitted to specify both CLONE_NEWNS
and CLONE_FS in the same clone() call.
For further information on mount namespaces, see namespaces(7)
and mount_namespaces(7).
CLONE_NEWPID (since Linux 2.6.24)
If CLONE_NEWPID is set, then create the process in a new PID
namespace. If this flag is not set, then (as with fork(2))
the process is created in the same PID namespace as the
calling process. This flag is intended for the implementation
of containers.
For further information on PID namespaces, see namespaces(7)
and pid_namespaces(7).
Only a privileged process (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) can employ
CLONE_NEWPID. This flag can't be specified in conjunction
with CLONE_THREAD or CLONE_PARENT.
CLONE_NEWUSER
(This flag first became meaningful for clone() in Linux
2.6.23, the current clone() semantics were merged in Linux
3.5, and the final pieces to make the user namespaces
completely usable were merged in Linux 3.8.)
If CLONE_NEWUSER is set, then create the process in a new user
namespace. If this flag is not set, then (as with fork(2))
the process is created in the same user namespace as the
calling process.
For further information on user namespaces, see namespaces(7)
and user_namespaces(7)
Before Linux 3.8, use of CLONE_NEWUSER required that the
caller have three capabilities: CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SETUID, and
CAP_SETGID. Starting with Linux 3.8, no privileges are needed
to create a user namespace.
This flag can't be specified in conjunction with CLONE_THREAD
or CLONE_PARENT. For security reasons, CLONE_NEWUSER cannot
be specified in conjunction with CLONE_FS.
For further information on user namespaces, see
user_namespaces(7).
CLONE_NEWUTS (since Linux 2.6.19)
If CLONE_NEWUTS is set, then create the process in a new UTS
namespace, whose identifiers are initialized by duplicating
the identifiers from the UTS namespace of the calling process.
If this flag is not set, then (as with fork(2)) the process is
created in the same UTS namespace as the calling process.
This flag is intended for the implementation of containers.
A UTS namespace is the set of identifiers returned by
uname(2); among these, the domain name and the hostname can be
modified by setdomainname(2) and sethostname(2), respectively.
Changes made to the identifiers in a UTS namespace are visible
to all other processes in the same namespace, but are not
visible to processes in other UTS namespaces.
Only a privileged process (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) can employ
CLONE_NEWUTS.
For further information on UTS namespaces, see namespaces(7).
CLONE_PARENT (since Linux 2.3.12)
If CLONE_PARENT is set, then the parent of the new child (as
returned by getppid(2)) will be the same as that of the
calling process.
If CLONE_PARENT is not set, then (as with fork(2)) the child's
parent is the calling process.
Note that it is the parent process, as returned by getppid(2),
which is signaled when the child terminates, so that if
CLONE_PARENT is set, then the parent of the calling process,
rather than the calling process itself, will be signaled.
CLONE_PARENT_SETTID (since Linux 2.5.49)
Store the child thread ID at the location ptid in the parent's
memory. (In Linux 2.5.32-2.5.48 there was a flag CLONE_SETTID
that did this.) The store operation completes before clone()
returns control to user space.
CLONE_PID (obsolete)
If CLONE_PID is set, the child process is created with the
same process ID as the calling process. This is good for
hacking the system, but otherwise of not much use. Since
2.3.21 this flag can be specified only by the system boot
process (PID 0). It disappeared in Linux 2.5.16. Since then,
the kernel silently ignores it without error.
CLONE_PTRACE (since Linux 2.2)
If CLONE_PTRACE is specified, and the calling process is being
traced, then trace the child also (see ptrace(2)).
CLONE_SETTLS (since Linux 2.5.32)
The TLS (Thread Local Storage) descriptor is set to newtls.
The interpretation of newtls and the resulting effect is
architecture dependent. On x86, newtls is interpreted as a
struct user_desc * (See set_thread_area(2)). On x86_64 it is
the new value to be set for the %fs base register (See the
ARCH_SET_FS argument to arch_prctl(2)). On architectures with
a dedicated TLS register, it is the new value of that
register.
CLONE_SIGHAND (since Linux 2.0)
If CLONE_SIGHAND is set, the calling process and the child
process share the same table of signal handlers. If the
calling process or child process calls sigaction(2) to change
the behavior associated with a signal, the behavior is changed
in the other process as well. However, the calling process
and child processes still have distinct signal masks and sets
of pending signals. So, one of them may block or unblock some
signals using sigprocmask(2) without affecting the other
process.
If CLONE_SIGHAND is not set, the child process inherits a copy
of the signal handlers of the calling process at the time
clone() is called. Calls to sigaction(2) performed later by
one of the processes have no effect on the other process.
Since Linux 2.6.0-test6, flags must also include CLONE_VM if
CLONE_SIGHAND is specified
CLONE_STOPPED (since Linux 2.6.0-test2)
If CLONE_STOPPED is set, then the child is initially stopped
(as though it was sent a SIGSTOP signal), and must be resumed
by sending it a SIGCONT signal.
This flag was deprecated from Linux 2.6.25 onward, and was
removed altogether in Linux 2.6.38. Since then, the kernel
silently ignores it without error. Starting with Linux 4.6,
the same bit was reused for the CLONE_NEWCGROUP flag.
CLONE_SYSVSEM (since Linux 2.5.10)
If CLONE_SYSVSEM is set, then the child and the calling
process share a single list of System V semaphore adjustment
(semadj) values (see semop(2)). In this case, the shared list
accumulates semadj values across all processes sharing the
list, and semaphore adjustments are performed only when the
last process that is sharing the list terminates (or ceases
sharing the list using unshare(2)). If this flag is not set,
then the child has a separate semadj list that is initially
empty.
CLONE_THREAD (since Linux 2.4.0-test8)
If CLONE_THREAD is set, the child is placed in the same thread
group as the calling process. To make the remainder of the
discussion of CLONE_THREAD more readable, the term "thread" is
used to refer to the processes within a thread group.
Thread groups were a feature added in Linux 2.4 to support the
POSIX threads notion of a set of threads that share a single
PID. Internally, this shared PID is the so-called thread
group identifier (TGID) for the thread group. Since Linux
2.4, calls to getpid(2) return the TGID of the caller.
The threads within a group can be distinguished by their
(system-wide) unique thread IDs (TID). A new thread's TID is
available as the function result returned to the caller of
clone(), and a thread can obtain its own TID using gettid(2).
When a call is made to clone() without specifying
CLONE_THREAD, then the resulting thread is placed in a new
thread group whose TGID is the same as the thread's TID. This
thread is the leader of the new thread group.
A new thread created with CLONE_THREAD has the same parent
process as the caller of clone() (i.e., like CLONE_PARENT), so
that calls to getppid(2) return the same value for all of the
threads in a thread group. When a CLONE_THREAD thread
terminates, the thread that created it using clone() is not
sent a SIGCHLD (or other termination) signal; nor can the
status of such a thread be obtained using wait(2). (The
thread is said to be detached.)
After all of the threads in a thread group terminate the
parent process of the thread group is sent a SIGCHLD (or other
termination) signal.
If any of the threads in a thread group performs an execve(2),
then all threads other than the thread group leader are
terminated, and the new program is executed in the thread
group leader.
If one of the threads in a thread group creates a child using
fork(2), then any thread in the group can wait(2) for that
child.
Since Linux 2.5.35, flags must also include CLONE_SIGHAND if
CLONE_THREAD is specified (and note that, since Linux
2.6.0-test6, CLONE_SIGHAND also requires CLONE_VM to be
included).
Signals may be sent to a thread group as a whole (i.e., a
TGID) using kill(2), or to a specific thread (i.e., TID) using
tgkill(2).
Signal dispositions and actions are process-wide: if an
unhandled signal is delivered to a thread, then it will affect
(terminate, stop, continue, be ignored in) all members of the
thread group.
Each thread has its own signal mask, as set by sigprocmask(2),
but signals can be pending either: for the whole process
(i.e., deliverable to any member of the thread group), when
sent with kill(2); or for an individual thread, when sent with
tgkill(2). A call to sigpending(2) returns a signal set that
is the union of the signals pending for the whole process and
the signals that are pending for the calling thread.
If kill(2) is used to send a signal to a thread group, and the
thread group has installed a handler for the signal, then the
handler will be invoked in exactly one, arbitrarily selected
member of the thread group that has not blocked the signal.
If multiple threads in a group are waiting to accept the same
signal using sigwaitinfo(2), the kernel will arbitrarily
select one of these threads to receive a signal sent using
kill(2).
CLONE_UNTRACED (since Linux 2.5.46)
If CLONE_UNTRACED is specified, then a tracing process cannot
force CLONE_PTRACE on this child process.
CLONE_VFORK (since Linux 2.2)
If CLONE_VFORK is set, the execution of the calling process is
suspended until the child releases its virtual memory
resources via a call to execve(2) or _exit(2) (as with
vfork(2)).
If CLONE_VFORK is not set, then both the calling process and
the child are schedulable after the call, and an application
should not rely on execution occurring in any particular
order.
CLONE_VM (since Linux 2.0)
If CLONE_VM is set, the calling process and the child process
run in the same memory space. In particular, memory writes
performed by the calling process or by the child process are
also visible in the other process. Moreover, any memory
mapping or unmapping performed with mmap(2) or munmap(2) by
the child or calling process also affects the other process.
If CLONE_VM is not set, the child process runs in a separate
copy of the memory space of the calling process at the time of
clone(). Memory writes or file mappings/unmappings performed
by one of the processes do not affect the other, as with
fork(2).
C library/kernel differences
The raw clone() system call corresponds more closely to fork(2) in
that execution in the child continues from the point of the call. As
such, the fn and arg arguments of the clone() wrapper function are
omitted. Furthermore, the argument order changes. In addition,
there are variations across architectures.
The raw system call interface on x86-64 and some other architectures
(including sh, tile, and alpha) is roughly:
long clone(unsigned long flags, void *child_stack,
int *ptid, int *ctid,
unsigned long newtls);
On x86-32, and several other common architectures (including score,
ARM, ARM 64, PA-RISC, arc, Power PC, xtensa, and MIPS), the order of
the last two arguments is reversed:
long clone(unsigned long flags, void *child_stack,
int *ptid, unsigned long newtls,
int *ctid);
On the cris and s390 architectures, the order of the first two
arguments is reversed:
long clone(void *child_stack, unsigned long flags,
int *ptid, int *ctid,
unsigned long newtls);
On the microblaze architecture, an additional argument is supplied:
long clone(unsigned long flags, void *child_stack,
int stack_size, /* Size of stack */
int *ptid, int *ctid,
unsigned long newtls);
Another difference for the raw system call is that the child_stack
argument may be zero, in which case copy-on-write semantics ensure
that the child gets separate copies of stack pages when either
process modifies the stack. In this case, for correct operation, the
CLONE_VM option should not be specified.
blackfin, m68k, and sparc
The argument-passing conventions on blackfin, m68k, and sparc are
different from the descriptions above. For details, see the kernel
(and glibc) source.
ia64
On ia64, a different interface is used:
int __clone2(int (*fn)(void *),
void *child_stack_base, size_t stack_size,
int flags, void *arg, ...
/* pid_t *ptid, struct user_desc *tls, pid_t *ctid */ );
The prototype shown above is for the glibc wrapper function; the raw
system call interface has no fn or arg argument, and changes the
order of the arguments so that flags is the first argument, and tls
is the last argument.
__clone2() operates in the same way as clone(), except that
child_stack_base points to the lowest address of the child's stack
area, and stack_size specifies the size of the stack pointed to by
child_stack_base.
Linux 2.4 and earlier
In Linux 2.4 and earlier, clone() does not take arguments ptid, tls,
and ctid.
On success, the thread ID of the child process is returned in the
caller's thread of execution. On failure, -1 is returned in the
caller's context, no child process will be created, and errno will be
set appropriately.
EAGAIN Too many processes are already running; see fork(2).
EINVAL CLONE_SIGHAND was specified, but CLONE_VM was not. (Since
Linux 2.6.0-test6.)
EINVAL CLONE_THREAD was specified, but CLONE_SIGHAND was not. (Since
Linux 2.5.35.)
EINVAL Both CLONE_FS and CLONE_NEWNS were specified in flags.
EINVAL (since Linux 3.9)
Both CLONE_NEWUSER and CLONE_FS were specified in flags.
EINVAL Both CLONE_NEWIPC and CLONE_SYSVSEM were specified in flags.
EINVAL One (or both) of CLONE_NEWPID or CLONE_NEWUSER and one (or
both) of CLONE_THREAD or CLONE_PARENT were specified in flags.
EINVAL Returned by the glibc clone() wrapper function when fn or
child_stack is specified as NULL.
EINVAL CLONE_NEWIPC was specified in flags, but the kernel was not
configured with the CONFIG_SYSVIPC and CONFIG_IPC_NS options.
EINVAL CLONE_NEWNET was specified in flags, but the kernel was not
configured with the CONFIG_NET_NS option.
EINVAL CLONE_NEWPID was specified in flags, but the kernel was not
configured with the CONFIG_PID_NS option.
EINVAL CLONE_NEWUTS was specified in flags, but the kernel was not
configured with the CONFIG_UTS option.
EINVAL child_stack is not aligned to a suitable boundary for this
architecture. For example, on aarch64, child_stack must be a
multiple of 16.
ENOMEM Cannot allocate sufficient memory to allocate a task structure
for the child, or to copy those parts of the caller's context
that need to be copied.
ENOSPC (since Linux 3.7)
CLONE_NEWPID was specified in flags, but the limit on the
nesting depth of PID namespaces would have been exceeded; see
pid_namespaces(7).
ENOSPC (since Linux 4.9; beforehand EUSERS)
CLONE_NEWUSER was specified in flags, and the call would cause
the limit on the number of nested user namespaces to be
exceeded. See user_namespaces(7).
From Linux 3.11 to Linux 4.8, the error diagnosed in this case
was EUSERS.
ENOSPC (since Linux 4.9)
One of the values in flags specified the creation of a new
user namespace, but doing so would have caused the limit
defined by the corresponding file in /proc/sys/user to be
exceeded. For further details, see namespaces(7).
EPERM CLONE_NEWCGROUP, CLONE_NEWIPC, CLONE_NEWNET, CLONE_NEWNS,
CLONE_NEWPID, or CLONE_NEWUTS was specified by an unprivileged
process (process without CAP_SYS_ADMIN).
EPERM CLONE_PID was specified by a process other than process 0.
EPERM CLONE_NEWUSER was specified in flags, but either the effective
user ID or the effective group ID of the caller does not have
a mapping in the parent namespace (see user_namespaces(7)).
EPERM (since Linux 3.9)
CLONE_NEWUSER was specified in flags and the caller is in a
chroot environment (i.e., the caller's root directory does not
match the root directory of the mount namespace in which it
resides).
ERESTARTNOINTR (since Linux 2.6.17)
System call was interrupted by a signal and will be restarted.
(This can be seen only during a trace.)
EUSERS (Linux 3.11 to Linux 4.8)
CLONE_NEWUSER was specified in flags, and the limit on the
number of nested user namespaces would be exceeded. See the
discussion of the ENOSPC error above.
clone() is Linux-specific and should not be used in programs intended
to be portable.
The kcmp(2) system call can be used to test whether two processes
share various resources such as a file descriptor table, System V
semaphore undo operations, or a virtual address space.
Handlers registered using pthread_atfork(3) are not executed during a
call to clone().
In the Linux 2.4.x series, CLONE_THREAD generally does not make the
parent of the new thread the same as the parent of the calling
process. However, for kernel versions 2.4.7 to 2.4.18 the
CLONE_THREAD flag implied the CLONE_PARENT flag (as in Linux 2.6.0
and later).
For a while there was CLONE_DETACHED (introduced in 2.5.32): parent
wants no child-exit signal. In Linux 2.6.2, the need to give this
flag together with CLONE_THREAD disappeared. This flag is still
defined, but has no effect.
On i386, clone() should not be called through vsyscall, but directly
through int $0x80.
GNU C library versions 2.3.4 up to and including 2.24 contained a
wrapper function for getpid(2) that performed caching of PIDs. This
caching relied on support in the glibc wrapper for clone(), but
limitations in the implementation meant that the cache was not up to
date in some circumstances. In particular, if a signal was delivered
to the child immediately after the clone() call, then a call to
getpid(2) in a handler for the signal could return the PID of the
calling process ("the parent"), if the clone wrapper had not yet had
a chance to update the PID cache in the child. (This discussion
ignores the case where the child was created using CLONE_THREAD, when
getpid(2) should return the same value in the child and in the
process that called clone(), since the caller and the child are in
the same thread group. The stale-cache problem also does not occur
if the flags argument includes CLONE_VM.) To get the truth, it was
sometimes necessary to use code such as the following:
#include <syscall.h>
pid_t mypid;
mypid = syscall(SYS_getpid);
Because of the stale-cache problem, as well as other problems noted
in getpid(2), the PID caching feature was removed in glibc 2.25.
The following program demonstrates the use of clone() to create a
child process that executes in a separate UTS namespace. The child
changes the hostname in its UTS namespace. Both parent and child
then display the system hostname, making it possible to see that the
hostname differs in the UTS namespaces of the parent and child. For
an example of the use of this program, see setns(2).
Program source
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/utsname.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define errExit(msg) do { perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); \
} while (0)
static int /* Start function for cloned child */
childFunc(void *arg)
{
struct utsname uts;
/* Change hostname in UTS namespace of child */
if (sethostname(arg, strlen(arg)) == -1)
errExit("sethostname");
/* Retrieve and display hostname */
if (uname(&uts) == -1)
errExit("uname");
printf("uts.nodename in child: %s\n", uts.nodename);
/* Keep the namespace open for a while, by sleeping.
This allows some experimentation--for example, another
process might join the namespace. */
sleep(200);
return 0; /* Child terminates now */
}
#define STACK_SIZE (1024 * 1024) /* Stack size for cloned child */
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char *stack; /* Start of stack buffer */
char *stackTop; /* End of stack buffer */
pid_t pid;
struct utsname uts;
if (argc < 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <child-hostname>\n", argv[0]);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
/* Allocate stack for child */
stack = malloc(STACK_SIZE);
if (stack == NULL)
errExit("malloc");
stackTop = stack + STACK_SIZE; /* Assume stack grows downward */
/* Create child that has its own UTS namespace;
child commences execution in childFunc() */
pid = clone(childFunc, stackTop, CLONE_NEWUTS | SIGCHLD, argv[1]);
if (pid == -1)
errExit("clone");
printf("clone() returned %ld\n", (long) pid);
/* Parent falls through to here */
sleep(1); /* Give child time to change its hostname */
/* Display hostname in parent's UTS namespace. This will be
different from hostname in child's UTS namespace. */
if (uname(&uts) == -1)
errExit("uname");
printf("uts.nodename in parent: %s\n", uts.nodename);
if (waitpid(pid, NULL, 0) == -1) /* Wait for child */
errExit("waitpid");
printf("child has terminated\n");
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
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