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Date:      Sat, 09 Oct 1999 18:51:20 +0200
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: merging current's jail functionality to stable
Message-ID:  <37FF7288.288EEBF6@scc.nl>
References:  <19991009100231S.nectar@nectar.com>, <19991009160651.314441D87@bone.nectar.com>

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Jacques Vidrine wrote:
> 
> [[ replying to your own message is fun ]]

>     = Don't change suser, but bring in the rest of the changes needed
>       for jail (add suser_xxx and update the 16 or so files that need
>       the new semantics).  This means that suser in -STABLE and -CURRENT
>       are still different (as it is today), but it puts of breaking
>       binary compatibility until 4.0-RELEASE.
> 
> This didn't occur to me earlier, mostly because I would like
> the suser from -CURRENT to be merged into -STABLE.  Strictly
> speaking, this isn't necessary to support jail.

To approach this from a different angle: How long will 3.x be -stable
and can we afford to wait that long for jail to be a -stable feature?

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Marcel Moolenaar                        mailto:marcel@scc.nl
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