Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:37:04 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New i386 5.0 packages uploaded (and toolchain problems) Message-ID: <20020310003704.GX53073@squall.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020309192857.61696F-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <20020309230124.GT53073@squall.waterspout.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020309192857.61696F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:30:21PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > uname extracts the various strings it can report from the running kernel > using sysctl. Unless you have a faked uname, it will return the > properties of the host non-chroot environment, rather than the chroot > environment. Increasingly, it's going to be harder and harder to run 5.0 > in a 4.x chroot, due to divergence in system calls, especially once > threaded applications start using KSE. Running 4.x in a 5.0 chroot should > (hopefully) continue to work fine. You are right. I made a thinko, and later realized it while talking to Kris. I was hoping nobody would notice... :) We are screwed if anybody uses sysctl() or sysctlbyname(), unless someone decides to allow us to change kernel variables and the like inside chroot() (or perhaps jail()).. -- wca <dunce cap> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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