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Re:Sailor, a native and portable container system for NetBSD... by geggam on Saturday January 16, 2016 @09:46AM (#10915371)
The cpu / memory / network "isolation" is done with cgroups and can be done without containers
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Re:Sailor, a native and portable container system for NetBSD... by vidarh on Saturday January 16, 2016 @10:48AM (#10915560)
cgroups are Linux-specific - they're not relevant for a OS X/NetBSD tool.
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Re:Sailor, a native and portable container system for NetBSD... by geggam on Saturday January 16, 2016 @11:54AM (#10915779)
no kidding ? sarcasm

They also don't isolate anything. especially when the container system is running as root. Neither does chroot.

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