--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml (revision 42051) +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml (working copy) @@ -5889,6 +5889,21 @@ it serves to firewall the process off from processes owned by other users. The user ID is also used to firewall off on-disk data. + + In addition to process and userid sandboxes offered by + the &unix; operating system, &os; provides the &man.jail.8; + feature, a secure, fast implementation of + operating system-level virtualization. This + allows a single &os; computer to run one or more guest &os; + system images with their own users, IP addresses, and + processes. Unlike &man.chroot.8;-based sandboxing, + processes are permanently confined to the jail they were + started in (including those owned by the jail's root user), + and cannot affect processes in other jails or the host + system. While the &man.jail.8; feature is unique to &os;, it + is similar to Solaris Zones, AIX Workload Partitions, and + Linux Containers.