Need for SysV IPC to be confined to jail instances

[Peter Jeremy]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:11:18PM +0100, Gabor Tjong A Hung wrote:
>As I came to understand, if you enable jail_sysvipc_allow in rc.conf I am 
>defeating the purpose of a jail.

Not totally defeating the purpose but SysV IPC is not jail-aware so
any jailed process can see and affect the global SysV IPC state.

>I got a suggestion that it might be possible to have sys v ipc confined to 
>a jail instance and perhaps let it work like a telephone number.

This has come up before.  See (eg):
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=48471
and the thread beginning
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-April/062261.html

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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