settimeofday within jail

[Julian Elischer]

it'd be good for testing the 2038 bug :-)


On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Colin Percival wrote:

>    Ok, this is a wierd question: How hard would it be to allow jails to 
> have local clocks which could be manipulated within those jails?
> 
>    The reason I'm asking is this: As those of you who attended my BSDCon 
> talk will know, FreeBSD Update plays games with the clock (specifically, it 
> sets the clock forward by 400 days) in order to locate timestamps embedded 
> in binary files.  I'd like to put as much as possible into a jail, to 
> protect my buildbox against the unlikely possibility that some malware gets 
> into the FreeBSD CVS repository.
>    If jailed clocks would be too difficult, I can certainly work around it; 
> but since I have almost no knowledge of kernel internals I thought I'd ask.
> 
> Colin Percival
> 
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