From owner-freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Sat Jun 23 15:30:26 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-jail@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8D51025091; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:30:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamie@freebsd.org) Received: from gritton.org (gritton.org [199.192.165.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gritton.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4399086E2F; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:30:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamie@freebsd.org) Received: from gritton.org ([127.0.0.131]) by gritton.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w5NFUBRu095434; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:30:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from jamie@freebsd.org) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:30:11 -0600 From: James Gritton To: bsd-lists@bsdforge.com, freebsd-jail@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable Stable Subject: Re: jail related inconsistencies in FreeBSD tools parameters In-Reply-To: References: <6dd9952452c73826a2f9c01612586bea@udns.ultimatedns.net> Message-ID: <18000a3b93085c91aeffbca937862786@freebsd.org> X-Sender: jamie@freebsd.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion about FreeBSD jail\(8\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:30:26 -0000 On 2018-06-22 16:03, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Chris H wrote on 2018/06/22 23:46: >> On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 23:13:17 +0200 "Miroslav Lachman" >> <000.fbsd@quip.cz> said >> >>> I don't know if it is better to discuss it in jail@ or stable@ list >>> so a do cross-post. >>> >>> FreeBSD has many jail aware utilities but they are inconsistent in >>> taking JID as parameter. >>> >>> For example "sockstat" takes -j JID "Show only sockets belonging to >>> the specified jail ID" and it means numeric ID only. >>> On the other hand "ps" takes -J JID "This may be either the jid or >>> name of the jail.  Use -J 0 to display only host processes." >>> The same apply for "top", it understands jid as a number or name of >>> the jail too. >>> Then again "cpuset" takes only numerical ID of the jail... >>> >>> Shouldn't it be consistent across all FreeBSD base utilities so all >>> of them can use numerical ID and name? >> Good idea! Are you offering to create a patch? ;-) >> It'd be my guess that given they weren't all created at the same time, >> nor >> the same individual; that (quite probably?) the "jail" additions were >> also >> added at different times, and by different people. So I'd imagine that >> unless someone with a commit bit decides one day they'd like to take >> that >> on. Someone(tm) maybe you? will need to propose a patch. :-) > > If I can understand C sources I will create the patch by myself > instead of just posting here. Unfortunately I am able to code in sh, > php and a bit of javascript and perl but no C. :) > > Miroslav Lachman Sure, a PR would be handy for this - it's a pretty simple thing to add, and consistency would indeed be a good move. - Jamie