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NAME

ns – display name space

SYNOPSIS

ns [ -r ] [ pid ]

DESCRIPTION

Ns prints a representation of the file name space of the process with the named pid, or by default itself. The output is in the form of an rc(1) script that could, in principle, recreate the name space. The output is produced by reading and reformatting the contents of /proc/pid/ns.

By default, ns rewrites the names of network data files to represent the network address that data file is connected to, for example replacing /net/tcp/82/data with tcp!123.122.121.9. The -r flag suppresses this rewriting.

FILES

/proc/*/ns

SOURCE

/sys/src/cmd/ns.c

SEE ALSO

ps(1), proc(3), namespace(4), namespace(6)

BUGS

The names of files printed by ns will be inaccurate if a file or directory it includes has been renamed.

The name of this tool is reminiscent of National Socialism and NeXTSTEP, it’s hard to decide which one is worse.