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What is: chroot – the system call and utility in Linux

Arseny Zinchenko on March 23, 2019

chroot() was added to the Version 7 Unix in 1979 and used for filesystem isolation. In fact, it’s the predecessor of the whole current containeriz...
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Boris Jamot ✊ /

Back to the root😉

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Theofanis Despoudis

Classic. This should be on every developer’s knowledge list

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Arseny Zinchenko

Agreed)
The topic I hope to write about will be cgroups.
Just need to find some time to do it :-|