Re: The issues for agreeing on a virtualization/namespaces implementation.

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Wed Feb 08 2006 - 09:44:37 EST


Quoting Herbert Poetzl (herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> > 3) How do we refer to namespaces and containers when we are not members?
> > - Do we refer to them indirectly by processes or other objects that
> > we can see and are members?
>
> the process will be an unique identifier to the
> namespace, but it might not be easy to use it, so
> IMHO it might at least make sense to ...

Especially from userspace. If I want to start a checkpoint on a
container, but I have to use the process to identify the
container/namespace, well I can't uniquely specify the process by pid
anymore...

-serge
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