Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:16:17 +0000 From: xorquewasp@googlemail.com To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody have a patch for pdksh derivatives, for jails? Message-ID: <20080225171617.GA9177@logik.internal.network> In-Reply-To: <20080225142412.hqn9n6kagw0w0w4o@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <5a08be760802241042x2cd93d63of5787a744e745fe5@mail.gmail.com> <20080225142412.hqn9n6kagw0w0w4o@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On 20080225 14:24:12, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting cali clarke <xorquewasp@googlemail.com> (from Sun, 24 Feb 2008 >> Note that also, this problem does NOT occur if you use ssh >> to enter the jail as I believe ssh handles tty allocation in >> advance. > > You don't give enough info. I assume you talk about a login into the host > system and then doing a "jexec X pdksh" to login into a jail. The important > question here is the how you login into the host system. Hi. Yes, exactly that. A login on the host system followed by a jexec of *ksh OR a jexec of another shell such as /bin/sh followed by an ordinary exec of any *ksh. >> I wondered if anybody had patched their *ksh to workaround >> this problem? > > So far it is not clear that the bug is within the *ksh. It may be also the > case that the problem should be fixed somewhere else. The problem appears to be that *ksh does various checks to determine if it can run with job control and one of those checks is based on whether or not it can successfully open /dev/tty, which can't happen in a jail (device busy). The other shells in base such as /bin/sh and /bin/csh don't appear to make these checks and therefore just work. I could of course patch *ksh to ignore the fact that it can't open /dev/tty but I'm unsure about what else this would break in the shell due to the hard-to-read source - hence my question about whether or not anybody else had already patched it.
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