On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 22:32 +0200, Loic Domaigne wrote: > Hello everybody, > > > I am wondering about the flag CLONE_NEWNS... > > Why this flag has been introduced in first place? > > What are some examples of where separate namespaces are useful? vserver is a user of this for example another use can be to give some special privileged process a sandbox (and unlike chroot you can't get out of this) and unlike chroot you can give this sandbox *extra* mounts that the rest of the system can't see! -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
