Re: jails clean startup

[Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 23:43 +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>the attached patches make it a bit easier to setup jails (no fake /etc/fstab,
> >>no additional network_interfaces="" in jails' /etc/rc.conf, etc) since some
> >>services are not supposed to run inside jail.
> > I never liked the nojail keyword. Anyway, I don't like the new sysctl
> > either, since it is redundant. Try "kill -0 1" :-)
> 
> I actually quite like the patch.  And having a sysctl telling explicitly 
> if running in a jail or not seems a very sane idea.  What does FreeBSD do?
Exactly that sysctl exists on FreeBSD as well. And I also consider an
explicit sysctl way better than some non-obvious[*] method to figure out
the same. 

Regards,
--
Andreas

[*] The man page of kill doesn't mention "0" as a way to check if a
process is jailed, and neither jail(2) nor jail(8) talk about it. And I
don't think a user new to jails imagines that trying and failing to send
a non-existing (cf. sys/signal.h, signal(3)) to init will tell him
whether he is jailed or not. But I may be overlooking something obvious,
of course :)

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