Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:17:42 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> To: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>, Marko Zec <zec@icir.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Subject: Re: Multiple IP Jail's patch for FreeBSD 6.2 Message-ID: <464B2096.5040605@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0705160632r4ec0164t8bb8b714fec15426@mail.gmail.com> References: <45F1C355.8030504@digitaldaemon.com> <4648993A.4060709@elischer.org> <4648CAFD.4020009@freebsd.org> <200705160604.28402.zec@icir.org> <3aaaa3a0705160632r4ec0164t8bb8b714fec15426@mail.gmail.com>
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Chris wrote: > On 16/05/07, Marko Zec <zec@icir.org> wrote: >> OTOH, even if we miss the window for sneaking this into 7.0-R, it would >> be a huge pitty not to at least reserve a few additional fields in >> various kernel structures needed to support stack virtualization. That >> way it would be possible to maintain a virtualized 7.0-R kernel in a >> separate code branch, which could be used as a snap-in replacement for >> the stock kernel even after API / ABI freeze comes into effect. This >> would allow us to give people an opportunity to conveniently test and >> play with the new framework on an otherwise production-grade OS, while >> continuing work towards (hopefully) merging of the chages into 8.0 at >> some point. > > Would like to see this in 7.0 considering many of us have been waiting > for such a feature since 4.x days. There is patches that make this > work with 5.x and 6.x so I have always been puzzled why it hasnt been > commited to the base, clearly enough time to make 7.0 a dream for > desktop users but I see many server side things been pushed aside. > Please make this happen as waiting for 8.0 seems forever. We should indeed reserve some spare fields in critical structures to make a MFC of it an option for 7.1 or 7.2. We'll discuss these issues here at BSDCan Developer Summit in more details. Marko is currently sitting about 2 meters from me. ;-) -- Andre
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