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Subject: Re: PID/UID namespaces
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On 5/21/12 6:47 AM, David Windsor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While doing some research on FreeBSD jails, I came across an item in the
> jails' TODO:
>
>
>     - be able to have a separate PID space for it
>     - be able to specify a separate UID space for it
>
> In other projects, these goals have been accomplished using namespaces.  I
> tried to see if PID/UID namespaces existed in BSD and came across something
> called Capsicum, a sandboxing project which does not appear to implement
> outright namespaces for descriptors like PID/UID, but uses something called
> a "Process Descriptor."
>
> Is namespacing of PIDs and UIDs an eventual goal of the jails project of
> FreeBSD?

"kinda"
Note terribly explicitly, but somewhere in our collective subconscious..

> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> PS: Excuse my ignorance of anything related to BSD, as I come from a Linux
> background.
>
>