From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 31 10:40:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6144B1065670 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:40:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3997C8FC17 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:40:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D812746B06; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:40:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:40:56 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= In-Reply-To: <868wh663vi.fsf@ds4.des.no> Message-ID: References: <9527461a0908260656w570f6cdha72e92b267e5354f@mail.gmail.com> <868wh663vi.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="621616949-282914110-1251715256=:68412" Cc: bert wiley , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need some help understanding a jail system call. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:40:57 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --621616949-282914110-1251715256=:68412 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >> Here is the link i used to find this code >> http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/jailng/ > > You realize that this is eight years old, right? And that the jail > infrastructure has been extensively modified since then, and is currently > being rewritten again? As DES points out, that jail work has been superceded by other, more interesting, work in the base tree. My suggestion would be to read the jail(2) man page, both the current 7.x version, and the forthcoming 8.x version which has been substantially enhanced, and disregard the jailng page. I should more clearly mark it as being of historic interest only. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge --621616949-282914110-1251715256=:68412--