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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SYSV IPC ABI rototill
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John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 June 2009 4:52:09 pm Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes:
>>> There have been a several issues with the existing ABI of the SYSV IPC 
>>> structures over the past several years and it has been on the todo list for 
>>> at least both 7.0 and 8.0.  Rather than putting it off until 9.0 I sat down 
>>> and worked on it this week.
>> 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.
> 

Marko did this and it is in P4 somewhere...