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The UTS namespace is for setting the hostname and the domain that is visible to running processes in that namespace.
The UTS namespace is for setting the hostname and the domain that is visible to running processes in that namespace.
=IPC Namespace=
The IPC (POSIX/SysV IPC) namespace provides separation of named shared memory segments, semaphores and message queues.

Revision as of 21:55, 22 January 2018

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PID Namespace

The PID Namespace provides separation of processes. It removes the view of the system processes, and allows process IDs to be reused, including pid 1.

UTS Namespace

The UTS namespace is for setting the hostname and the domain that is visible to running processes in that namespace.

IPC Namespace

The IPC (POSIX/SysV IPC) namespace provides separation of named shared memory segments, semaphores and message queues.