diff options
| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-03-01 10:00:34 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-09-13 20:16:00 -0700 |
| commit | 36b04745db394ef3c056acba21c332c89cfd5d60 (patch) | |
| tree | 3846746ad2921777b42557a7201fe7893b8b35c2 /man7/pid_namespaces.7 | |
| parent | cbf542aa98b0c69eb136ed13b615a65e457f75b8 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-36b04745db394ef3c056acba21c332c89cfd5d60.tar.gz | |
pid_namespaces.7: Mention suspend/resume of containers in intro text
Reported-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/pid_namespaces.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/pid_namespaces.7 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/pid_namespaces.7 b/man7/pid_namespaces.7 index 28de041ace..ad3de95915 100644 --- a/man7/pid_namespaces.7 +++ b/man7/pid_namespaces.7 @@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ For an overview of namespaces, see PID namespaces isolate the process ID number space, meaning that processes in different PID namespaces can have the same PID. -PID namespaces allow containers to migrate to a new host +PID namespaces allow containers to provide functionality +such as suspending/resuming the set of processes in the container and +migrating the container to a new host while the processes inside the container maintain the same PIDs. PIDs in a new PID namespace start at 1, |