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From: Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improving Shepherd
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 03:41:49 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmh3gzhu.fsf@zancanaro.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180205170011.73780f13@scratchpost.org>

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Hey Danny,

On Mon, Feb 05 2018, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> I assume that means "starts a user's shepherd when they log in".

Either that, or run the services itself. In either case, what you 
have sent is very helpful!

> User namespaces just present a different set of names to your 
> process
> (via VFS) so it looks like a chroot basically.
> It does nothing for processes except fake their ids and limit 
> your
> overview of them.
>
> You probably want process groups (see setsid(2)) or maybe 
> containers.

Okay. I've been trying to read about containers/cgroups/namespaces 
and I think my mind has just blurred them all into the same thing. 
I'll read up about process groups. Thanks!

Carlo

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-05 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-29 21:14 Improving Shepherd Carlo Zancanaro
2018-01-29 22:27 ` Jelle Licht
2018-02-05 10:49 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-02-05 13:08   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-05 15:56     ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-02-09 13:26       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-09 19:50         ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-02-09 21:32         ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-02-14 13:10           ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-15 13:55             ` Andy Wingo
2018-02-10 13:34     ` Jelle Licht
2018-02-14 13:25       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-15 17:05         ` Jelle Licht
2018-02-15 19:04           ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-05 16:00   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-05 16:41     ` Carlo Zancanaro [this message]
2018-02-09 13:22     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-09 20:51       ` David Pirotte

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