Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:31:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: settimeofday within jail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0310031131090.16775-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20031003184821.020c4c48@popserver.sfu.ca>
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it'd be good for testing the 2038 bug :-) On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Colin Percival wrote: > Ok, this is a wierd question: How hard would it be to allow jails to > have local clocks which could be manipulated within those jails? > > The reason I'm asking is this: As those of you who attended my BSDCon > talk will know, FreeBSD Update plays games with the clock (specifically, it > sets the clock forward by 400 days) in order to locate timestamps embedded > in binary files. I'd like to put as much as possible into a jail, to > protect my buildbox against the unlikely possibility that some malware gets > into the FreeBSD CVS repository. > If jailed clocks would be too difficult, I can certainly work around it; > but since I have almost no knowledge of kernel internals I thought I'd ask. > > Colin Percival > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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