Re: CLONE_NEWIPC documentation

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> > +This flag is intended for the implementation of control groups.
> 
> The above sentence is wrong.
> 
> +This flag is intended for the implementation of containers.
> 
> Would be correct.
> 
> Both control groups and namespaces feed into the user space container
> concept.  Control groups are multiprocess resource limits.
> Namespaces are affect the mapping from resource name to resource.
> 
> What is interesting is you can unshare a sysvipc namespace and still have
> sysvipc shared memory mapped from another sysvipc namespace.
> 
> This is something that needs to be watched for.

Oh, I see, so please disregard my last msg, it seems Eric was plenty
clear.

thanks,
-serge
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