Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 08:53:06 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, imp@village.org (Warner Losh), liam@tiora.net (Liam Slusser), kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu (Kenny Drobnack), Harry_M_Leitzell@cmu.edu (Harry M. Leitzell), security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BPF on in 3.3-RC GENERIC kernel Message-ID: <14672.937723986@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:34:26 PDT." <199909190634.XAA68995@apollo.backplane.com>
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Final email from here: Matt, you have not done anything to show that changing the ip_number field to a sockaddr will be enough to support IPv6 or any other protocol in the future. Remember that IPv4 is a very simple protocol, most others are not, in particular IPv6 it seems. I do not see a reason to change an interface which is already deployed, and which have been so for more than 1.5 years, "just in case it might be enough to support IPv6." I will therefore not make any changes to the jail(2) syscalls arguments until such time as we know what arguments will actually be needed for jail(2) under IPv6, or any other protocol for that matter. Poul-Henning In message <199909190634.XAA68995@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: > >:You have not proved or even shown that changing this particular >:element will be enough to guarantee that we can support other >:protocols in the future. >: >:The only thing that can be done to the jail(2) syscall to improve >:it in that respect is to add a version number as the first element, >:I would have no problem with that. >: >:-- >:Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > > Well, I see it quite differently. I believe I have given ample > justification for asking that the system call be cleaned up before it > is exposed to wider use. You're making a blanket comments saying > "Matt hasn't proved..." and not even trying to address the issues > brought up doesn't really pull any weight with me. Try addressing > the issues that were brought up instead. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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