* Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As long as pty's have been allocated that have been created by threads
> in a jail, the prison structure has more references, causing the zombie
> jails to exist.

We could change the make_dev_credv() routine to crcopy() everything
except the prison when we're creating a node in a jail. The following
patch fixes the zombie jail bug on my machine:

--- src/sys/kern/kern_conf.c    Fri Oct 20 09:59:50 2006
+++ src/sys/kern/kern_conf.c    Thu Jan  4 21:36:44 2007
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 #include <sys/ctype.h>
 #include <sys/tty.h>
 #include <sys/ucred.h>
+#include <sys/jail.h>
 #include <machine/stdarg.h>
 
 #include <fs/devfs/devfs_int.h>
@@ -563,7 +564,15 @@
                
        dev->si_flags |= SI_NAMED;
        if (cr != NULL)
-               dev->si_cred = crhold(cr);
+               if (cr->cr_prison == NULL) {
+                       dev->si_cred = crhold(cr);
+               } else {
+                       /* Don't let the node depend on a prison */
+                       dev->si_cred = crget();
+                       crcopy(dev->si_cred, cr);
+                       prison_free(dev->si_cred->cr_prison);
+                       dev->si_cred->cr_prison = NULL;
+               }
        else
                dev->si_cred = NULL;
        dev->si_uid = uid;

Could other people experiencing this problem as well give this patch a
try? Thanks a lot!

Yours,
-- 
 Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/

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