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by strlen 1936 days ago
Indeed they are! The notion that each process has its separate address space is called virtual memory for that reason.

See also cgroups: while this feature is used by the container run times, it predates Docker, and can be used standalone with normal processes.

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Indeed. I made a website for testing npm packages inside a cgroup/unshared "container" - about 6 months before docker came out.

If only I had realised that could have been useful for more than testing npm packages...