From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7][v7] Container-init signal semantics Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:16:40 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20090117202638.GA11825@us.ibm.com> <20090119110906.58ccbcbd.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090121030500.GA32138@us.ibm.com> <20090121125300.b5916256.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090121125300.b5916256.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki's message of "Wed\, 21 Jan 2009 12\:53\:00 +0900") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu , oleg@redhat.com, roland@redhat.com, bastian@waldi.eu.org, daniel@hozac.com, xemul@openvz.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 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