What do you mean by "full-fledged namespaces" ? Isn't the device file
sufficient ?
> It creates a pipe, writes signature there, forks, child marshalls the state
> through the pipe, [...]
Cool, just like LIB$SPAWN on VAX/VMS ;-)
> parent does exec(),
What does it exec ? exec?p "init" ? execl "/sbin/init" ? Whatever "init="
said ?
Well, I suppose in most cases, the first thing that runs isn't init
anyway, but some kind of shell, so this doesn't matter. But it's a neat
feature.
- Werner
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