From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 13 12: 6:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41F537B404 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:06:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27DFA43E3B for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:06:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gADK65Or098821; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:06:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tty/pty devices not safe in jail? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:01:08 PST." <200211132001.gADK188f001694@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:06:05 +0100 Message-ID: <98820.1037217965@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200211132001.gADK188f001694@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon w rites: > Would people be interested if I added such a feature? Limit the > highest allocatable pty to 90% when operating within a jail? In practice there is no real "upper limit" on ptys, apart from the amount of KVM you need. I don't really think running out of ptys is a problem compared to other resource limitations (number of processes etc etc). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message