/* Entering namespaces for test case isolation. Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see . */ #ifndef SUPPORT_NAMESPACE_H #define SUPPORT_NAMESPACE_H #include #include __BEGIN_DECLS /* Attempts to become root (or acquire root-like privileges), possibly with the help of user namespaces. Return true if (restricted) root privileges could be attained in some way. Print diagnostics to standard output. Note that this function generally has to be called before a process becomes multi-threaded, otherwise it may fail with insufficient privileges on systems which would support this operation for single-threaded processes. */ bool support_become_root (void); /* Enter a network namespace (and a UTS namespace if possible) and configure the loopback interface. Return true if a network namespace could be created. Print diagnostics to standard output. If a network namespace could be created, but networking in it could not be configured, terminate the process. It is recommended to call support_become_root before this function so that the process has sufficient privileges. */ bool support_enter_network_namespace (void); /* Return true if support_enter_network_namespace managed to enter a UTS namespace. */ bool support_in_uts_namespace (void); __END_DECLS #endif