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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 2006 23:40:51 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc:        Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: [HACKERS] semaphore usage "port based"? 
Message-ID:  <20060403233826.Q76562@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <16158.1144094263@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

> BTW, as long as we're annoying the freebsd-stable list with discussions of 
> workarounds, I'm wondering whether our shared memory code might have similar 
> risks.  Does FBSD 6 also lie about the existence of other-jail processes 
> connected to a shared memory segment --- ie, in shmctl(IPC_STAT)'s result, 
> does shm_nattch count only processes in our own jail?

People are, of course, welcome to read the Jail documentation in order to read 
the warning about not enabling the System V IPC support in Jails, and what the 
possible results of doing so are.

Robert N M Watson



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