[lxc-devel] Detecting if you are running in a container

[Eric W. Biederman]

Ted Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> writes:

>> I am of course making it sound a million times easier than it's
>> actually likely to be, but I do think it's possible without too many
>> odd corner cases.
>
> It's not the corner cases, it's all of the different name spaces that
> different system administrators and their sites are going to want to
> use, and how to support them all....
>
> And of course, once we start naming uid name spaces, eventually
> someone will want to virtualize containers, and then we will have
> namespaces for namespaces.  (It's turtles all the way down!  :-)

I have found and merged a solution that allows us to name namespaces
without needing a namespaces for namespaces.

Eric