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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SYSV IPC ABI rototill
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On Tuesday 23 June 2009 4:52:09 pm Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes:
> > There have been a several issues with the existing ABI of the SYSV IPC=
=20
> > structures over the past several years and it has been on the todo list=
 for=20
> > at least both 7.0 and 8.0.  Rather than putting it off until 9.0 I sat =
down=20
> > and worked on it this week.
>=20
> Have you given any thought to virtualization, i.e. separate namespaces
> for each jail?  Will your patch make this any easier or harder to
> implement?

It likely has zero effect on that.  The global variables one would need to
virtualize are unchanged by this.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin