jail related inconsistencies in FreeBSD tools parameters

[Chris H]

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. :-)

--Chris
> 
> Should I file a PR for it?
> 
> Miroslav Lachman
> 
> PS: I am on FreeBSD 10.4 so I don't know if something is different in 
> newer branches
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