TYtyingq·Oct 29, 2017
>Or why don’t free and top work in a Linux container?
You can use the lxcfs fuse filesystem to get that and a little more: https://github.com/lxc/lxcfs/blob/master/README.md
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2 sourcesAs a lowly user¹: linux containers are more like gaffer tape around namespaces and cgroups than something like lego. You want real memory usage in your cgroup? let's mount some fuse filesystem: https://github.com/lxc/lxcfs - https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-4781...
We have to gaffer tape with AppArmor and SELinux to fix all the holes the kernel doesn't care about: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/config/apparmor/conta...
Solaris Zones are more designed and an evolution from FreeBSD Jails. Okay, the military likely paid for that: https://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/overview_of_solaris_ke...
Maybe it's Deathstar vs. Lego. But I assume you can survive a lot longer in a Deathstar in vacuum than in your Lego spaceship hardened by gaffa tape.
1: I have uttermost respect for anyone working on this stuff. No offense
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, but as a user sometimes a lack of design and implementation of bigger concepts (not as in more code, but better design, more secure) in the Linux world is sad. It's probably the only way to move forward but you could read on @grsecurity Twitter years ago that this idea is going to be a fun ride full of security bugs. There might be a better way?