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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Detecting if you are running in a container
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:58:32 -0700
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On 10/14/2011 11:04 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> I have found and merged a solution that allows us to name namespaces
> without needing a namespaces for namespaces.
> 

Something based on UUIDs, perhaps?

UUIDs are kind of exactly this, after all... a single namespace designed
to be large and random enough to be globally unique without a central
registration authority.

	-hpa