atom feed5 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-jailRe: jail(8) allow.socket_af, unknown oid
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Glen BarberMay 25, 2010 10:53 am 
Jamie GrittonMay 26, 2010 9:56 am 
Glen BarberMay 26, 2010 10:47 am 
Jamie GrittonMay 26, 2010 12:03 pm 
jhellMay 27, 2010 6:31 pm 
Subject:Re: jail(8) allow.socket_af, unknown oid
From:Glen Barber (glen@gmail.com)
Date:May 26, 2010 10:47:39 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-jail

Hi Jamie,

On 5/26/10 12:57 PM, Jamie Gritton wrote:

On 05/25/10 11:54, Glen Barber wrote:

The jail(8) man page has an entry under 'allow.*', allow.socket_af, which states to allow access to protocol stacks that have not had jail functionality added to them.

[snip]

Is this sysctl missing, or is it not a tunable?

The sysctls that describe available jail parameters don't always have a type that sysctl(8) understands. In particular, the boolean parameters are given a sysctl type of "B", and sysctl(8) will ignore them.

These aren't useful sysctls in any normal way - they never have a meaningful value. The exist only so their types and sizes can be determined by jail(8) and jail(3).

As per the jail(8) man page, you can use "sysctl -d" to show sysctl descriptions without the value. Since it's only the values that sysctl(8) doesn't understand, such parameters as allow.sock_af will then show up.

Or, in a short answer to your last question: this isn't a tunable in the normal sysctl way, just a jail parameter.

Thanks for the explanation. Would there be opposition about a patch for jail(8) noting which sysctls are tunable by sysctl(8) and which are not?