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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:14:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SysctlFS 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007152020060.877-100000@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200007152343.RAA49544@harmony.village.org>

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On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007151907310.877-100000@green.dyndns.org> Brian Fundakowski Feldman writes:
> : On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Robert Watson wrote:
> : 
> : > On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> : > 
> : > > We could create a way for jailed processes to "break out" into the
> : > > canonical name space. This is a description of possible semantics for
> : > 
> : > What canonical namespace would that be?
> : 
> : Unless you can think of anything else that could possibly be the
> : canonical namespace, struct vnode *rootvnode.
> 
> Put another way...
> 
> If we have a jail that lives in /foo/bar, and we have ways to
> symboliclly link outside /foo/bar, that's a big problem.

Why? It's got exactly the same considerations as the "true" root being
able to mount(2) things into a jail or mknod(2).

> Also, you really don't want too many devices in a jail's /dev tree.
> You really wouldn't want devfs for jail unless you could limit it
> severely.  And that's going to be hard to write, I think.

But you could create multiple mounts (instances) of devfs which each
contain a specific subset of the devfs proper and do the "symlink
breakout" accordingly :)  An aspect of jail classes, if you will.

> Warner

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