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Hurd?

Hurd?

Posted Mar 2, 2013 19:15 UTC (Sat) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
Parent article: Namespaces in operation, part 5: User namespaces

> As we noted in an earlier article, one of the motivations for implementing user namespaces is to give non-root applications access to functionality that was formerly limited to the root user.

Wasn't that one of the motivations for the microkernel design of GNU Hurd?


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