On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:30:21PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > uname extracts the various strings it can report from the running kernel > using sysctl. Unless you have a faked uname, it will return the > properties of the host non-chroot environment, rather than the chroot > environment. Increasingly, it's going to be harder and harder to run 5.0 > in a 4.x chroot, due to divergence in system calls, especially once > threaded applications start using KSE. Running 4.x in a 5.0 chroot should > (hopefully) continue to work fine.
You are right. I made a thinko, and later realized it while talking to Kris. I was hoping nobody would notice... :) We are screwed if anybody uses sysctl() or sysctlbyname(), unless someone decides to allow us to change kernel variables and the like inside chroot() (or perhaps jail()).. -- wca <dunce cap> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
