fdescfs patch for working hierarchical jails

[Ruben van Staveren]

Hi James, others,

On 26 Sep 2014, at 21:28, James Gritton <jamie at gritton.org> wrote:

> On 9/25/2014 3:40 AM, Ruben van Staveren wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Could a committer have a look at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192951 ?
>> 
>> This enables fdescfs in hierarchical jails, would be nice to have this for 10.1
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>>     Ruben van Staveren
> 
> This would have to go into current first, and then MFC.  Considering
> 10.1 is getting close to release, I suspect it wouldn't be allowed in.

I agree, probably better to do it that way indeed.

> Also, I'm not sure I'd want to implement this in quite the proposed
> way: it might suffice (from a security viewpoint) to use the existing
> allow.mount.devfs for mounting fdescfs.

Wouldn’t that be misleading? It would be better to mop up the various pseudofses under the monicker allow.mount.pseudofs.



> 
> - Jamie

- Ruben
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