Plug-connector system with at least one plug connector and with at least one mating connector capable of being connected to said plug connector, wherein the plug connector has the following: - a plug-connector component with a housing, - at least one control module arranged therein, and - an operating system for operating the control module, and - at least one functional module (15, 20) capable of being controlled by the control module and capable of being inserted into the housing and arranged therein, wherein the control module has been set up to receive and to implement at least one container (19, 24) with at least one process that has been set up for utilizing a kernel of the operating system, and to control the functional module (15, 20) at least partially by means of the process, wherein the control module has been set up to receive the container (19, 24) after insertion of the functional modules (15, 20) into the housing automatically from an external data source (15, 20), and wherein the mating connector exhibits at least one mating-connector control module which after connection of the plug connector and the mating connector is connected to the control module, characterized in that the control module has been set up to generate at least one partial or complete copy of the container (19, 24) and to transfer the copy to the mating-connector control module and to implement it in the latter, to the extent that requisite free resources of the plug connector for controlling the functional module (15, 20) are insufficiently available or fall short of a predetermined lower limit. - a plug-connector component with a housing, - at least one control module arranged therein, and - an operating system for operating the control module, and - at least one functional module (15, 20) capable of being controlled by the control module and capable of being inserted into the housing and arranged therein, wherein the control module has been set up to receive and to implement at least one container (19, 24) with at least one process that has been set up for utilizing a kernel of the operating system, and to control the functional module (15, 20) at least partially by means of the process, wherein the control module has been set up to receive the container (19, 24) after insertion of the functional modules (15, 20) into the housing automatically from an external data source (15, 20), and wherein the mating connector exhibits at least one mating-connector control module which after connection of the plug connector and the mating connector is connected to the control module, characterized in that the control module has been set up to generate at least one partial or complete copy of the container (19, 24) and to transfer the copy to the mating-connector control module and to implement it in the latter, to the extent that requisite free resources of the plug connector for controlling the functional module (15, 20) are insufficiently available or fall short of a predetermined lower limit. wherein the control module has been set up to receive and to implement at least one container (19, 24) with at least one process that has been set up for utilizing a kernel of the operating system, and to control the functional module (15, 20) at least partially by means of the process, wherein the control module has been set up to receive the container (19, 24) after insertion of the functional modules (15, 20) into the housing automatically from an external data source (15, 20), and wherein the mating connector exhibits at least one mating-connector control module which after connection of the plug connector and the mating connector is connected to the control module, characterized in that the control module has been set up to generate at least one partial or complete copy of the container (19, 24) and to transfer the copy to the mating-connector control module and to implement it in the latter, to the extent that requisite free resources of the plug connector for controlling the functional module (15, 20) are insufficiently available or fall short of a predetermined lower limit.