Re: Detecting if you are running in a container

[Eric W. Biederman]

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 10/14/2011 11:04 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> I have found and merged a solution that allows us to name namespaces
>> without needing a namespaces for namespaces.
>> 
>
> Something based on UUIDs, perhaps?
>
> UUIDs are kind of exactly this, after all... a single namespace designed
> to be large and random enough to be globally unique without a central
> registration authority.

mount --bind /proc/self/ns/net /var/run/netns/<name>

When we want to refer to the namespace in syscalls we pass a file
descriptor we received from opening the namespace reference object.

That moves the entire naming problem into the file namespace.

Eric
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