jail related inconsistencies in FreeBSD tools parameters

[Miroslav Lachman]

Chris H wrote on 2018/06/22 23:46:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 23:13:17 +0200 "Miroslav Lachman" <000.fbsd at quip.cz> 
> said
> 
>> I don't know if it is better to discuss it in jail@ or stable@ list so 
>> a do cross-post.
>>
>> FreeBSD has many jail aware utilities but they are inconsistent in 
>> taking JID as parameter.
>>
>> For example "sockstat" takes -j JID "Show only sockets belonging to 
>> the specified jail ID" and it means numeric ID only.
>> On the other hand "ps" takes -J JID "This may be either the jid or 
>> name of the jail.  Use -J 0 to display only host processes."
>> The same apply for "top", it understands jid as a number or name of 
>> the jail too.
>> Then again "cpuset" takes only numerical ID of the jail...
>>
>> Shouldn't it be consistent across all FreeBSD base utilities so all of 
>> them can use numerical ID and name?
> Good idea! Are you offering to create a patch? ;-)
> It'd be my guess that given they weren't all created at the same time, nor
> the same individual; that (quite probably?) the "jail" additions were also
> added at different times, and by different people. So I'd imagine that
> unless someone with a commit bit decides one day they'd like to take that
> on. Someone(tm) maybe you? will need to propose a patch. :-)

If I can understand C sources I will create the patch by myself instead 
of just posting here. Unfortunately I am able to code in sh, php and a 
bit of javascript and perl but no C. :)

Miroslav Lachman