On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Speaking of the jail() syscall -- it really needs to be revamped a
> > little before people really start using it wholeheartedly. The size
> > of the jail structure needs to be passed in the syscall to allow
> > backwards
> > compatibility when things change such as, for example, the size of the
> > IP address.
>
> Actually, with interfaces like this you should generally pass a pointer
> to the structure in userspace, and stick a version number constant in
> the beginning of the structure. The size is often not enough of a
> determining factor...
Actually, the structure shouldn't change size because it should be
using a sockaddr.
>
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