new jail(8) ignoring devfs_ruleset?
Jamie Gritton
jamie at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 9 13:27:27 UTC 2013
On 05/09/13 03:17, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 06:46:57PM -0600, Jamie Gritton wrote:
>>
>> It's not fixed anywhere yet - it sometimes works in current, and
>> sometimes doesn't. I've been meaning to patch it up, but it the problem
>> is what I think it is, the patching up is a pretty big operation.
>>
>> It doesn't mean you can't use jails with devfs in 9.1, just that you
>> can't use them with jail.conf. The old jail rc file that's all
>> shell-based is still the official jail startup method, and that one
>> still works. So existing systems will still work as expected, hence no
>> errata.
>
> Shouldn't we warn the user about that in the manpage though?
Well really we ought to fix it. I guess the man page could have
something in the meantime, about an assumption that when you specify a
devfs ruleset, that the ruleset in question must actually exist at the time.
- Jamie
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