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sukadev@us.ibm.com wrote:
>> We want to provide isolation between containers, meaning PTYs in container
>> C1 should not be accessible to processes in C2 (unless C2 is an ancestor).
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> Yes, I certainly can understand the desire for isolation. That wasn't what
> my question was about.
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>> The other reason for this in the longer term is for checkpoint/restart.
>> When restarting an application we want to make sure that the PTY indices
>> it was using is available and isolated.
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> OK, this would be the motivation for index isolation.
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>> A complete device-namespace could solve this, but IIUC, is being planned
>> in the longer term. We are hoping this would provide the isolation in the
>> near-term without being too intrusive or impeding the implementation of
>> the device namespace.
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> I'm just worried about the accumulation of what feels like ad hoc
> namespaces, causing a very large combination matrix, a lot of which don't
> make sense.
