Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: xxd -i vs DIY Was: C23 thoughts and opinions Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 02:07:01 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <00297443-2fee-48d4-81a0-9ff6ae6481e4@gmail.com> <87msoh5uh6.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87y18047jk.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87msoe1xxo.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87ikz11osy.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <20240528144118.00002012@yahoo.com> <20240528185624.00002494@yahoo.com> <20240528232315.00006a58@yahoo.com> <20240529012456.000003ce@yahoo.com> <20240603110248.000042cf@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:07:02 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d7d916175bb629e2353c22c0a9deb72e"; logging-data="140054"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Qefd8H7q132Ha4M47+9G0" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1qtVL4smbGPlMu2YBQaM8rWSeFA= Bytes: 2274 On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 11:02:48 +0300, Michael S wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 03:15:27 -0000 (UTC) > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> Linux has containers, which are based entirely on namespace isolation >> (and cgroups for process management). These are all standard kernel >> mechanisms, so there should be very little overhead in using them. > > The word "container" has many meanings. > As far as host FS is concerned, guest FS is a one huge file. That may be true for Docker, certainly not (necessarily) true for the others I mentioned.