On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 04:49:04PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi, > > When I create an lxc container and run a simple process (which all it > does is call pause()), > I see the pid of this process also in the host (Simply by running ps > aux | grep pause). > And of course I see it also inside the container again with ps aux | grep > pause. > The pids are of course different. > > What is the reason for this ? I would expect that > since the conatiner has a different PID namespace, the PID whic is > created for the child > will no be seen on the host, which acts in a different namespace (the > initial PID namespace) The reason is that this is how PID namespace are designed: They form a tree up to the root namespace. Each process will have *a* PID in which it was created up to the root namespace. _______________________________________________ lxc-devel mailing list lxc-devel@lists.linuxcontainers.org http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-devel
