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Date:      Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:07:41 +0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Alex Lyashkov <shadow@psoft.net>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: jail extensions
Message-ID:  <4486EBBD.3090404@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <1149692184.3224.208.camel@berloga.shadowland>
References:  <1149610678.4074.42.camel@berloga.shadowland>	 <448633F2.7030902@elischer.org> <20060607095824.W53690@fledge.watson.org>	 <200606070819.04301.jhb@freebsd.org> <4486E41B.4000003@elischer.org> <1149692184.3224.208.camel@berloga.shadowland>

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Alex Lyashkov wrote:

>>Marco's work is somewhat similar.
>>All globals related to the network are moved to structures that can be  
>>duplicated.
>>
>>The base system also uses this structure so that in effect the base 
>>system is just another instance
>>of the virtual machines. The biggest obstacle is that the 4.x based 
>>version just put everything
>>into one structure, meaning that it only worked when all the components 
>>effected were
>>compiled into the kernel. None of them could be implemented as a 
>>loadable kernel module.
>>This has become much more important in 6.x.
>>
>>Ther is a way to allow this to work but it would require that we 
>>implement a kernel version of
>>the idea used for TLS (Thread Local Storage), so that modules being 
>>loaded could be added
>>to all the existing VMs and new VMs could get instances of all loaded 
>>modules.
>>(and so that a module could not be unloaded until all VMS have destroyed 
>>their instance
>>    
>>
>It`s can be created easy. each module can be full own private data and
>register init/destroy methods, similar SYSINIT macro.
>prison will need add array for store pointers to modules data.
>yes, it possible need lost more memory - but easy for implementation.
>  
>

"Easy" if you are writing something from scratch and you want it to not 
be able to be compiled
the old way too.


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