jail related inconsistencies in FreeBSD tools parameters

[James Gritton]

On 2018-06-22 16:03, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> 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

Sure, a PR would be handy for this - it's a pretty simple thing to add, 
and consistency would indeed be a good move.

- Jamie