On 23 June 2018 at 08:30, James Gritton <ja...@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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.f...@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.
Agreed. I'll review and commit such patches. I'd like to see a single function for taking a "id or name". Ideally it would live in a library, perhaps libjail? -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
