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From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:22:55 -0500
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:

> But I could write a script or a tool to gather all the information
> without this filesystem.  The namespace tree can be reconstructed by
> anything that can view the process tree and the /proc/<pid>/ns
> directory.

So basically you're stating that we could build the same thing that the
namespacefs would give us from inside a privileged container that had
access to the system procfs?

-- Steve