[lxc-users] unique container id

[U.Mutlu]

Serge Hallyn wrote, On 02/05/2015 04:47 PM:
> Quoting U.Mutlu (for-gmane at mutluit.com):
>> U.Mutlu wrote, On 02/01/2015 05:16 PM:
>>> Hi,
>>> how can a program or a shell script get the unique ID of the container
>>> it is running inside? For example the name of the container.
>>
>> Hi people,
>> has nobody an idea for this?
>
> Sigh.  Try ls -li /proc/self/ns/pid

Hi Serge,
I think this is only an ephemeral ID, isn't it?
I rather need a persistent ID for identifying the container.
It would even suffice to get the name of the container (from within the 
container). Is this possible?

Thx
Uenal