One use of namespaces is to implement containers.
Linux provides the following namespaces:
-
.TS
lB lB lB
l lB l.
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POSIX message queues (see
-.BR mq_overview (7).
+.BR mq_overview (7)).
The common characteristic of these IPC mechanisms is that IPC
objects are identified by mechanisms other than filesystem
pathnames.
file (present since Linux 2.6.17)
exports information (statistics, configuration information)
about the mount points in the process's mount namespace.
-This file is only readable by the owner of the process.
+This file is readable only by the owner of the process.
Lines in this file have the form:
.RS
.in 12
.BR user_namespaces (7),
.BR switch_root (8)
.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.75 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,