[PATCH] SYSV IPC ABI rototill

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 23 21:06:50 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 23 June 2009 4:52:09 pm Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb at 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.

-- 
John Baldwin


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