[Devel] Re: [PATCH 0/7][v7] Container-init signal semantics

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Tue Jan 20 20:16:40 PST 2009


KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com> writes:

> What makes me confused is "Container". There is no "Container" in
> the linux kernel, just cgroup and its subsyss.
> (Some source codes still use "cont" but new codes all use "cgroup" or "cgrp" )
>
> So, I asked whether "Container" means "Namespace subsys" or something different.

"Container" is what we use to refer to the user space concept, that is built
from a set of namespaces and control groups.  A Container that looks like
a standard linux install from the inside is what we expect the most common
use of namespaces and control groups to be.

Eric
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