Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 16:10:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jail syscalls Message-ID: <199908032310.QAA01618@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Aug 1999 16:05:14 PDT." <199908032305.QAA24203@apollo.backplane.com>
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> Speaking of the jail() syscall -- it really needs to be revamped a > little before people really start using it wholeheartedly. The size > of the jail structure needs to be passed in the syscall to allow backwards > compatibility when things change such as, for example, the size of the > IP address. Actually, with interfaces like this you should generally pass a pointer to the structure in userspace, and stick a version number constant in the beginning of the structure. The size is often not enough of a determining factor... -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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