NAME¶

newpid - launch a command in a new PID namespace

SYNOPSIS¶

newpid command

DESCRIPTION¶

newpid uses the clone(CLONE_NEWPID) syscall to launch a command in a new PID namespace. The /proc filesystem is also remounted so the new process IDs are also visible there.

OPTIONS¶

None.

EXAMPLE¶

 $ sudo newpid ps aux
 USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
 root         1  0.0  0.0   4080    84 pts/3    S+   12:15   0:00 newpid ps aux
 root         2  0.0  0.0  19984  1316 pts/3    R+   12:15   0:00 ps aux

SEE ALSO¶

clone(2), unshare(1).

AUTHOR¶

Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>