Is it safe to change compat.linux.osrelease inside a jail?

[Boris Samorodov]

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:49:13 +0200 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org> (from Mon, 6 Aug 2007
> 11:04:22 +0200):
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> >> Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> (from Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:00:35
> >> +0400):

> >> >I'm porting some Fedora Core 6 applications. Since the FreeBSD
> >> >package of a FC6 port should be build with non-default
> >> >compat.linux.osrelease and pointyhat is using jails to create
> >> >packages, here is the question at the Subject.
> >> >
> >> >I know it _may_ be changed (I've tried and succeeded). Can someone
> >> >say that it's quite OK to do so (without bad effects to jail/host)?
> >> >Sure I ask about -CURRENT.
> >>
> >> Roman did some work to make this a per-jail feature. I haven't seen
> >> any obvious stuff in the code which would make using this a bad idea.
> >> So: there are no known side-effects to use this in a jail.
> >
> > I didnt do anything.. this has always been per-jail attribute :)

> Yes. Sorry for not being clear. You did the right work from the
> beginning to make the sysctl per jail instead of making it a global
> property of the system. And the feature which is protected by this
> sysctl should be able to work correctly for the use case.

Got it, thanks.


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