unshare

Python extension for C's unshare call (man 2 unshare)


Keywords
Linux, unshare, system
License
GPL-3.0
Install
pip install unshare==0.22

Documentation

unshare

PyPI

pip3 install unshare

Python extension for C's unshare call.
See man 2 unshare.

Note: This is targeted for only Linux based platforms.

Usage

unshare(flags) where supported flags are CLONE_NEWNS, CLONE_NEWUTS, CLONE_NEWPID, CLONE_NEWUSER, CLONE_NEWIPC, CLONE_NEWNET, CLONE_THREAD.
Multiple flags can be used using the bitwise or operator.

Example usage

import unshare
unshare.unshare(unshare.CLONE_NEWUTS)

The following screenshot is taken from a sample script which uses the unshare library.

License

This project is licensed under GPLv3.