16.04.2020 16:31, David Marec wrote:

> The manpage and usage output doesn't match.
> 
> The manpage tells us that this option should be used alone on the command 
> line, as any other command will be discarded.
> 
> The usage ouput does not mention the "-r" flag but "cmr" (with a typo).
> 
> Both suggest that the user can request information about one single jail, or 
> all the jails using a wildcard or no other argument.
> 
> Well, looking at the code, it sounds that the only way to make it work is to 
> use it alone on the command line, and their is no way get information about a 
> single jail.
> 
> Attached is a short patch to get information about one single jail or all 
> jails (wildcards or empty).
> 
> 
> But,how was "jail -e" intending to be used, actually ?

"jail -e" mode is used by periodic/weekly/340.noid script to differentiate 
parts of mounted file trees
belonging to the host and to the configured full-blown jails, no matter started 
or not.

This is documentation ambiguity as "jail -e" was not intended to take jail name 
as additional argument.
Do you have any real use case this addition?

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