[Bug 284961] $name in jail.conf is empty if it's a number

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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:44:45 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=284961

Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org> ---
I'm tempted to call this "works as intended" because yes this is exactly how I
intended it to work - even though the whole idea of allowing a jail to be
created with a pre-determined JID was in retrospect an mistake.

If a jail block in jail.conf is labeled with a number, then it's for a jail
identified by its JID, and thus it doesn't (yet) have a name.  Just like if a
jail block is labeled with a non-numeric name it doesn't (yet) have a jid.

Yes, if you want, you could say name=$jid.  You could even make it a default
that would be overridden by any jail that is (properly) specified by name.

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