[lxc-devel] [lxc/master] Unprivileged's incompatibility with type=none docs

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From 777f1ef71e6df186dbab78c67803cebb7a3b5cee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexandros Kosiaris <akosiaris at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:01:15 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Unprivileged's incompatibility with type=none docs

Unprivileged containers are not compatible with sharing the
host namespace due to an inability to mount sysfs. Add docs
in lxc.container.conf to document that out.

Refs #2463
---
 doc/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in b/doc/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in
index 9808ade6c..a3a3a9d8d 100644
--- a/doc/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in
+++ b/doc/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in
@@ -430,7 +430,9 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
               network devices are usable in the container.  It also
               means that if both the container and host have upstart as
               init, 'halt' in a container (for instance) will shut down the
-              host.
+              host. Note that unprivileged containers do not work without this
+	      setting due to an inability to mount sysfs. An unsafe workaround
+	      would be to bind mount the hosts sysfs.
             </para>
 
             <para>