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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jeff Roberson
982d11f836 Commit 14/14 of sched_lock decomposition.
- Use thread_lock() rather than sched_lock for per-thread scheduling
   sychronization.
 - Use the per-process spinlock rather than the sched_lock for per-process
   scheduling synchronization.

Tested by:      kris, current@
Tested on:      i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
2007-06-05 00:00:57 +00:00
Julian Elischer
ad1e7d285a Threading cleanup.. part 2 of several.
Make part of John Birrell's KSE patch permanent..
Specifically, remove:
Any reference of the ksegrp structure. This feature was
never fully utilised and made things overly complicated.
All code in the scheduler that tried to make threaded programs
fair to unthreaded programs.  Libpthread processes will already
do this to some extent and libthr processes already disable it.

Also:
Since this makes such a big change to the scheduler(s), take the opportunity
to rename some structures and elements that had to be moved anyhow.
This makes the code a lot more readable.

The ULE scheduler compiles again but I have no idea if it works.

The 4bsd scheduler still reqires a little cleaning and some functions that now do
ALMOST nothing will go away, but I thought I'd do that as a separate commit.

Tested by David Xu, and Dan Eischen using libthr and libpthread.
2006-12-06 06:34:57 +00:00
John Birrell
8460a577a4 Make KSE a kernel option, turned on by default in all GENERIC
kernel configs except sun4v (which doesn't process signals properly
with KSE).

Reviewed by:	davidxu@
2006-10-26 21:42:22 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
09c00166e4 Make tv_sec a time_t on all platforms but alpha. Brings us more in line with
POSIX.  This also makes the struct correct we ever implement an i386-time64
architecture.  Not that we need too.

Reviewed by:	imp, brooks
Approved by:	njl (acpica), des (no objects, touches procfs)
Tested with:	make universe
2005-12-24 22:22:17 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
46d7d4a332 Don't export major,minor, instead export tty name. 2005-03-15 11:05:11 +00:00
Warner Losh
d167cf6f3a /* -> /*- for copyright notices, minor format tweaks as necessary 2005-01-06 18:10:42 +00:00
Colin Percival
691b3b0df9 Fix unvalidated pointer dereference. This is FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs. 2004-12-01 21:33:02 +00:00
John Baldwin
78c85e8dfc Rework how we store process times in the kernel such that we always store
the raw values including for child process statistics and only compute the
system and user timevals on demand.

- Fix the various kern_wait() syscall wrappers to only pass in a rusage
  pointer if they are going to use the result.
- Add a kern_getrusage() function for the ABI syscalls to use so that they
  don't have to play stackgap games to call getrusage().
- Fix the svr4_sys_times() syscall to just call calcru() to calculate the
  times it needs rather than calling getrusage() twice with associated
  stackgap, etc.
- Add a new rusage_ext structure to store raw time stats such as tick counts
  for user, system, and interrupt time as well as a bintime of the total
  runtime.  A new p_rux field in struct proc replaces the same inline fields
  from struct proc (i.e. p_[isu]ticks, p_[isu]u, and p_runtime).  A new p_crux
  field in struct proc contains the "raw" child time usage statistics.
  ruadd() has been changed to handle adding the associated rusage_ext
  structures as well as the values in rusage.  Effectively, the values in
  rusage_ext replace the ru_utime and ru_stime values in struct rusage.  These
  two fields in struct rusage are no longer used in the kernel.
- calcru() has been split into a static worker function calcru1() that
  calculates appropriate timevals for user and system time as well as updating
  the rux_[isu]u fields of a passed in rusage_ext structure.  calcru() uses a
  copy of the process' p_rux structure to compute the timevals after updating
  the runtime appropriately if any of the threads in that process are
  currently executing.  It also now only locks sched_lock internally while
  doing the rux_runtime fixup.  calcru() now only requires the caller to
  hold the proc lock and calcru1() only requires the proc lock internally.
  calcru() also no longer allows callers to ask for an interrupt timeval
  since none of them actually did.
- calcru() now correctly handles threads executing on other CPUs.
- A new calccru() function computes the child system and user timevals by
  calling calcru1() on p_crux.  Note that this means that any code that wants
  child times must now call this function rather than reading from p_cru
  directly.  This function also requires the proc lock.
- This finishes the locking for rusage and friends so some of the Giant locks
  in exit1() and kern_wait() are now gone.
- The locking in ttyinfo() has been tweaked so that a shared lock of the
  proctree lock is used to protect the process group rather than the process
  group lock.  By holding this lock until the end of the function we now
  ensure that the process/thread that we pick to dump info about will no
  longer vanish while we are trying to output its info to the console.

Submitted by:	bde (mostly)
MFC after:	1 month
2004-10-05 18:51:11 +00:00
Warner Losh
f36cfd49ad Remove advertising clause from University of California Regent's
license, per letter dated July 22, 1999 and email from Peter Wemm,
Alan Cox and Robert Watson.

Approved by: core, peter, alc, rwatson
2004-04-07 20:46:16 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
c5b7c33bc8 Remove ps_argsopen from this check, because of two reasons:
1. This check if wrong, because it is true by default
   (kern.ps_argsopen is 1 by default) (p_cansee() is not even checked).
2. Sysctl kern.ps_argsopen is going away.
2004-04-01 00:04:23 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
7caaf6c9c9 Minor whitespace and style issues. 2003-12-07 17:40:00 +00:00
David Xu
0e2a4d3aeb Rename P_THREADED to P_SA. P_SA means a process is using scheduler
activations.
2003-06-15 00:31:24 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
87ccef7b77 Instead of recording the Unix time in a process when it starts, record the
uptime.  Where necessary, convert it back to Unix time by adding boottime
to it.  This fixes a potential problem in the accounting code, which would
compute the elapsed time incorrectly if the Unix time was stepped during
the lifetime of the process.
2003-05-01 16:59:23 +00:00
John Baldwin
f36403612a - Use a local variable to close a minor race when determining if the wmesg
printed out needs a prefix such as when a thread is blocked on a lock.
- Use another local variable to close another race for the td_wmesg and
  td_wchan members of struct thread.
2003-04-17 22:16:58 +00:00
Julian Elischer
ac2e415327 Change the process flags P_KSES to be P_THREADED.
This is just a cosmetic change but I've been meaning to do it for about a year.
2003-02-27 02:05:19 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
05ba50f522 Use the fields in the sysentvec and in the vm map header in place of the
constants VM_MIN_ADDRESS, VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS, USRSTACK and PS_STRINGS.
This is mainly so that they can be variable even for the native abi, based
on different machine types.  Get stack protections from the sysentvec too.
This makes it trivial to map the stack non-executable for certain abis, on
machines that support it.
2002-09-21 22:07:17 +00:00
John Baldwin
f44d9e24fb Change p_can{debug,see,sched,signal}()'s first argument to be a thread
pointer instead of a proc pointer and require the process pointed to
by the second argument to be locked.  We now use the thread ucred reference
for the credential checks in p_can*() as a result.  p_canfoo() should now
no longer need Giant.
2002-05-19 00:14:50 +00:00
John Baldwin
590ae816c2 - p_cansee() needs the target process locked.
- We need the proc lock held for more of procfs_doprocstatus().
2002-04-13 23:09:41 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
e9b192b758 Protect proc struct (p_args and p_comm) when doing procfs IO that pulls
data from it.

Submitted by: Jonathan Mini <mini@haikugeek.com>
2002-03-29 19:12:40 +00:00
Seigo Tanimura
f591779bb5 Lock struct pgrp, session and sigio.
New locks are:

- pgrpsess_lock which locks the whole pgrps and sessions,
- pg_mtx which protects the pgrp members, and
- s_mtx which protects the session members.

Please refer to sys/proc.h for the coverage of these locks.

Changes on the pgrp/session interface:

- pgfind() needs the pgrpsess_lock held.

- The caller of enterpgrp() is responsible to allocate a new pgrp and
  session.

- Call enterthispgrp() in order to enter an existing pgrp.

- pgsignal() requires a pgrp lock held.

Reviewed by:	jhb, alfred
Tested on:	cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
		(which is a quad-CPU machine running -current)
2002-02-23 11:12:57 +00:00
Bruce Evans
a21759a1a9 FIxed the following style bugs:
- clobbering of jsp's $Id$ by FreeBSD's old $Id$.
- long lines in recent KSE changes (procfs_ctl.c).
- other style bugs in KSE changes (most related to an shadowed variable
  in procfs_status.c -- the td in the outer scope is obfuscated by
  PFS_FILL_ARGS).

Approved by:	des
2002-02-16 05:59:26 +00:00
Julian Elischer
079b7badea Pre-KSE/M3 commit.
this is a low-functionality change that changes the kernel to access the main
thread of a process via the linked list of threads rather than
assuming that it is embedded in the process. It IS still embeded there
but remove all teh code that assumes that in preparation for the next commit
which will actually move it out.

Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, benno rice,
2002-02-07 20:58:47 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
3a669c52a8 Pseudofsize procfs(5). 2001-12-04 01:35:06 +00:00
Robert Watson
011376308f o Introduce pr_mtx into struct prison, providing protection for the
mutable contents of struct prison (hostname, securelevel, refcount,
  pr_linux, ...)
o Generally introduce mtx_lock()/mtx_unlock() calls throughout kern/
  so as to enforce these protections, in particular, in kern_mib.c
  protection sysctl access to the hostname and securelevel, as well as
  kern_prot.c access to the securelevel for access control purposes.
o Rewrite linux emulator abstractions for accessing per-jail linux
  mib entries (osname, osrelease, osversion) so that they don't return
  a pointer to the text in the struct linux_prison, rather, a copy
  to an array passed into the calls.  Likewise, update linprocfs to
  use these primitives.
o Update in_pcb.c to always use prison_getip() rather than directly
  accessing struct prison.

Reviewed by:	jhb
2001-12-03 16:12:27 +00:00
Peter Wemm
4ff021c699 Fix printf format bugs introduced in rev 1.34 for printing times.
quad_t cannot be printed with %lld on 64 bit systems.

Dont waste cpu to round user and system times up to long long, it is
highly improbable that a process will have accumulated 68 years of
user or system cpu time (not wall clock time) before a reboot or
process restart.
2001-11-07 02:51:25 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
0e9fe2127c Adjust printfs to be time_t agnostic. 2001-10-28 22:53:45 +00:00
Mike Barcroft
3273a63ed9 A process name may contain whitespace and unprintable characters,
so convert those characters to octal notation.  Also convert
backslashes to octal notation to avoid confusion.

Reviewed by:	des
MFC after:	1 week
2001-09-25 04:42:40 +00:00
Julian Elischer
b40ce4165d KSE Milestone 2
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.

Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)

Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org

X-MFC after:    ha ha ha ha
2001-09-12 08:38:13 +00:00
Robert Watson
a0f75161f9 o Replace calls to p_can(..., P_CAN_xxx) with calls to p_canxxx().
The p_can(...) construct was a premature (and, it turns out,
  awkward) abstraction.  The individual calls to p_canxxx() better
  reflect differences between the inter-process authorization checks,
  such as differing checks based on the type of signal.  This has
  a side effect of improving code readability.
o Replace direct credential authorization checks in ktrace() with
  invocation of p_candebug(), while maintaining the special case
  check of KTR_ROOT.  This allows ktrace() to "play more nicely"
  with new mandatory access control schemes, as well as making its
  authorization checks consistent with other "debugging class"
  checks.
o Eliminate "privused" construct for p_can*() calls which allowed the
  caller to determine if privilege was required for successful
  evaluation of the access control check.  This primitive is currently
  unused, and as such, serves only to complicate the API.

Approved by:	({procfs,linprocfs} changes) des
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
2001-07-05 17:10:46 +00:00
Robert Watson
b1fc0ec1a7 o Merge contents of struct pcred into struct ucred. Specifically, add the
real uid, saved uid, real gid, and saved gid to ucred, as well as the
  pcred->pc_uidinfo, which was associated with the real uid, only rename
  it to cr_ruidinfo so as not to conflict with cr_uidinfo, which
  corresponds to the effective uid.
o Remove p_cred from struct proc; add p_ucred to struct proc, replacing
  original macro that pointed.
  p->p_ucred to p->p_cred->pc_ucred.
o Universally update code so that it makes use of ucred instead of pcred,
  p->p_ucred instead of p->p_pcred, cr_ruidinfo instead of p_uidinfo,
  cr_{r,sv}{u,g}id instead of p_*, etc.
o Remove pcred0 and its initialization from init_main.c; initialize
  cr_ruidinfo there.
o Restruction many credential modification chunks to always crdup while
  we figure out locking and optimizations; generally speaking, this
  means moving to a structure like this:
        newcred = crdup(oldcred);
        ...
        p->p_ucred = newcred;
        crfree(oldcred);
  It's not race-free, but better than nothing.  There are also races
  in sys_process.c, all inter-process authorization, fork, exec, and
  exit.
o Remove sigio->sio_ruid since sigio->sio_ucred now contains the ruid;
  remove comments indicating that the old arrangement was a problem.
o Restructure exec1() a little to use newcred/oldcred arrangement, and
  use improved uid management primitives.
o Clean up exit1() so as to do less work in credential cleanup due to
  pcred removal.
o Clean up fork1() so as to do less work in credential cleanup and
  allocation.
o Clean up ktrcanset() to take into account changes, and move to using
  suser_xxx() instead of performing a direct uid==0 comparision.
o Improve commenting in various kern_prot.c credential modification
  calls to better document current behavior.  In a couple of places,
  current behavior is a little questionable and we need to check
  POSIX.1 to make sure it's "right".  More commenting work still
  remains to be done.
o Update credential management calls, such as crfree(), to take into
  account new ruidinfo reference.
o Modify or add the following uid and gid helper routines:
      change_euid()
      change_egid()
      change_ruid()
      change_rgid()
      change_svuid()
      change_svgid()
  In each case, the call now acts on a credential not a process, and as
  such no longer requires more complicated process locking/etc.  They
  now assume the caller will do any necessary allocation of an
  exclusive credential reference.  Each is commented to document its
  reference requirements.
o CANSIGIO() is simplified to require only credentials, not processes
  and pcreds.
o Remove lots of (p_pcred==NULL) checks.
o Add an XXX to authorization code in nfs_lock.c, since it's
  questionable, and needs to be considered carefully.
o Simplify posix4 authorization code to require only credentials, not
  processes and pcreds.  Note that this authorization, as well as
  CANSIGIO(), needs to be updated to use the p_cansignal() and
  p_cansched() centralized authorization routines, as they currently
  do not take into account some desirable restrictions that are handled
  by the centralized routines, as well as being inconsistent with other
  similar authorization instances.
o Update libkvm to take these changes into account.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Reviewed by:	green, bde, jhb, freebsd-arch, freebsd-audit
2001-05-25 16:59:11 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
99d300a1ec - FDESC, FIFO, NULL, PORTAL, PROC, UMAP and UNION file
systems were repo-copied from sys/miscfs to sys/fs.

- Renamed the following file systems and their modules:
  fdesc -> fdescfs, portal -> portalfs, union -> unionfs.

- Renamed corresponding kernel options:
  FDESC -> FDESCFS, PORTAL -> PORTALFS, UNION -> UNIONFS.

- Install header files for the above file systems.

- Removed bogus -I${.CURDIR}/../../sys CFLAGS from userland
  Makefiles.
2001-05-23 09:42:29 +00:00
Mark Murray
fb919e4d5a Undo part of the tangle of having sys/lock.h and sys/mutex.h included in
other "system" header files.

Also help the deprecation of lockmgr.h by making it a sub-include of
sys/lock.h and removing sys/lockmgr.h form kernel .c files.

Sort sys/*.h includes where possible in affected files.

OK'ed by:	bde (with reservations)
2001-05-01 08:13:21 +00:00
John Baldwin
30ac5d0f9e Protect read to p_pptr with proc lock rather than proctree lock. 2001-03-07 03:10:20 +00:00
Robert Watson
91421ba234 o Move per-process jail pointer (p->pr_prison) to inside of the subject
credential structure, ucred (cr->cr_prison).
o Allow jail inheritence to be a function of credential inheritence.
o Abstract prison structure reference counting behind pr_hold() and
  pr_free(), invoked by the similarly named credential reference
  management functions, removing this code from per-ABI fork/exit code.
o Modify various jail() functions to use struct ucred arguments instead
  of struct proc arguments.
o Introduce jailed() function to determine if a credential is jailed,
  rather than directly checking pointers all over the place.
o Convert PRISON_CHECK() macro to prison_check() function.
o Move jail() function prototypes to jail.h.
o Emulate the P_JAILED flag in fill_kinfo_proc() and no longer set the
  flag in the process flags field itself.
o Eliminate that "const" qualifier from suser/p_can/etc to reflect
  mutex use.

Notes:

o Some further cleanup of the linux/jail code is still required.
o It's now possible to consider resolving some of the process vs
  credential based permission checking confusion in the socket code.
o Mutex protection of struct prison is still not present, and is
  required to protect the reference count plus some fields in the
  structure.

Reviewed by:	freebsd-arch
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
2001-02-21 06:39:57 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
9ed346bab0 Change and clean the mutex lock interface.
mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:

mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)

similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:

mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.

The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.

Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:

MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH

The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:

mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.

Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.

Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.

Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.

Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.

Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)
2001-02-09 06:11:45 +00:00
John Baldwin
b939335607 - Catch up to proc flag changes. 2001-01-24 11:20:05 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
98f03f9030 Protect proc.p_pptr and proc.p_children/p_sibling with the
proctree_lock.

linprocfs not locked pending response from informal maintainer.

Reviewed by:	jhb, -smp@
2000-12-23 19:43:10 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
b8c8516a7f More paranoia against overflows 2000-11-08 21:53:05 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
ab3240e198 Fix overflow from jail hostname.
Bug found by:	Esa Etelavuori <eetelavu@cc.hut.fi>
2000-11-01 19:38:08 +00:00
Robert Watson
387d2c036b o Centralize inter-process access control, introducing:
int p_can(p1, p2, operation, privused)

  which allows specification of subject process, object process,
  inter-process operation, and an optional call-by-reference privused
  flag, allowing the caller to determine if privilege was required
  for the call to succeed.  This allows jail, kern.ps_showallprocs and
  regular credential-based interaction checks to occur in one block of
  code.  Possible operations are P_CAN_SEE, P_CAN_SCHED, P_CAN_KILL,
  and P_CAN_DEBUG.  p_can currently breaks out as a wrapper to a
  series of static function checks in kern_prot, which should not
  be invoked directly.

o Commented out capabilities entries are included for some checks.

o Update most inter-process authorization to make use of p_can() instead
  of manual checks, PRISON_CHECK(), P_TRESPASS(), and
  kern.ps_showallprocs.

o Modify suser{,_xxx} to use const arguments, as it no longer modifies
  process flags due to the disabling of ASU.

o Modify some checks/errors in procfs so that ENOENT is returned instead
  of ESRCH, further improving concealment of processes that should not
  be visible to other processes.  Also introduce new access checks to
  improve hiding of processes for procfs_lookup(), procfs_getattr(),
  procfs_readdir().  Correct a bug reported by bp concerning not
  handling the CREATE case in procfs_lookup().  Remove volatile flag in
  procfs that caused apparently spurious qualifier warnigns (approved by
  bde).

o Add comment noting that ktrace() has not been updated, as its access
  control checks are different from ptrace(), whereas they should
  probably be the same.  Further discussion should happen on this topic.

Reviewed by:	bde, green, phk, freebsd-security, others
Approved by:	bde
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
2000-08-30 04:49:09 +00:00
Peter Wemm
e0f9d2869a Fix typo "," vs ";"
PR:		15696
Submitted by:	Takashi Okumura <taka@cs.pitt.edu>
1999-12-27 16:03:38 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
a8704f8999 Add a sysctl to control if argv is disclosed to the world:
kern.ps_argsopen
It defaults to 1 which means that all users can see all argvs in ps(1).

Reviewed by:	Warner
1999-11-26 08:27:16 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
a9e0361b4a Introduce the new function
p_trespass(struct proc *p1, struct proc *p2)
which returns zero or an errno depending on the legality of p1 trespassing
on p2.

Replace kern_sig.c:CANSIGNAL() with call to p_trespass() and one
extra signal related check.

Replace procfs.h:CHECKIO() macros with calls to p_trespass().

Only show command lines to process which can trespass on the target
process.
1999-11-21 19:03:20 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6153cb2048 Make proc/*/cmdline use the cached argv if available.
Submitted by:   Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
Reviewed by:    phk
1999-11-17 21:35:07 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
63a9927353 Let processes retrieve their argv through procfs. Revert to the original
behaviour in all other cases.

Submitted by: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk>
1999-08-19 19:41:08 +00:00
Dmitrij Tejblum
9d3a442583 Don't call calcru() on a swapped-out process. calcru() access p_stats, which
is in U-area.
1999-05-22 20:10:31 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
75c1354190 This Implements the mumbled about "Jail" feature.
This is a seriously beefed up chroot kind of thing.  The process
is jailed along the same lines as a chroot does it, but with
additional tough restrictions imposed on what the superuser can do.

For all I know, it is safe to hand over the root bit inside a
prison to the customer living in that prison, this is what
it was developed for in fact:  "real virtual servers".

Each prison has an ip number associated with it, which all IP
communications will be coerced to use and each prison has its own
hostname.

Needless to say, you need more RAM this way, but the advantage is
that each customer can run their own particular version of apache
and not stomp on the toes of their neighbors.

It generally does what one would expect, but setting up a jail
still takes a little knowledge.

A few notes:

   I have no scripts for setting up a jail, don't ask me for them.

   The IP number should be an alias on one of the interfaces.

   mount a /proc in each jail, it will make ps more useable.

   /proc/<pid>/status tells the hostname of the prison for
   jailed processes.

   Quotas are only sensible if you have a mountpoint per prison.

   There are no privisions for stopping resource-hogging.

   Some "#ifdef INET" and similar may be missing (send patches!)

If somebody wants to take it from here and develop it into
more of a "virtual machine" they should be most welcome!

Tools, comments, patches & documentation most welcome.

Have fun...

Sponsored by:   http://www.rndassociates.com/
Run for almost a year by:       http://www.servetheweb.com/
1999-04-28 11:38:52 +00:00
Peter Wemm
75ba77578f A partial implementation of the procfs cmdline pseudo-file. This
is enough to satisfy things like StarOffice.  This is a hack, but doing
it properly would be a LOT of work, and would require extensive grovelling
around in the user address space to find the argv[].

Obtained from: Mostly from Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>.
1999-01-05 03:53:06 +00:00
Bruce Evans
ac1e407b32 Fixed printf format errors. 1998-07-11 07:46:16 +00:00