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namespaces(7) — Linux manual page

Kerrisk, M. (2023). namespaces(7) — Linux manual page. The Linux man-pages project.

Type
Web resource
Intellectual base
Web
Year
2023
Link
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/namespaces.7.html
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biology_ecology

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  • Located-In Relation
    • In computing, variables are located in scopes, processes in containers, files in directories, rows in partitions, users in tenants.

      This sourceDocuments how Linux namespaces wrap a global system resource (mount/filesystem, PID, network) so that processes are located within an isolated instance of it — the OS containment/tenancy machinery for files in directories, processes in containers, and users in namespaces.

      Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

      The manual page defines a namespace as an isolated instance of a global resource and names containers as one use, backing only the 'processes in containers' (and, via user namespaces, 'users in ...') limbs of the claim.

      “A namespace wraps a global system resource in an abstraction that makes it appear to the processes within the namespace that they have their own isolated instance of the global resource. Changes to the global resource are visible to other processes that are members of the namespace, but are invisible to other processes. One use of namespaces is to implement containers.”

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