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What types of isolated areas in Linux are implemented using namespaces?

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In Linux, namespaces are used to isolate various system resources between processes. The main types of namespaces that implement isolated areas are:

  • PID namespace — isolates process identifiers, allowing different namespaces to have processes with the same PID.
  • Mount namespace — isolates mount points of file systems, allowing different processes to see different file systems.
  • UTS namespace — isolates system identifiers such as hostname and domain name.
  • IPC namespace — isolates inter-process communication (shared memory segments, message queues, and semaphores).
  • Network namespace — isolates network interfaces, IP addresses, routing tables.
  • User namespace — isolates user and group IDs, allowing processes to have different privileges in different namespaces.
  • Cgroup namespace — isolates cgroup hierarchies.

These namespaces enable the creation of containers and other forms of isolation in Linux.

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