i remember reading that they would love to have it, but who is
interested in contributing the code, is the main question.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Dustin Cannon <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Tech,
>
> After reading about FreeBSD jails I naturally wondered whether OpenBSD
> had a similar feature.  Well, I ran across sysjail.  Based on my
> reading of the wikipedia article, it's my understanding that sysjail
> was discontinued due to an inherent flaw involving race conditions.
> If I understand correctly, sysjail used user-space wrappers to system
> calls to enforce security policy, while FreeBSD jails are an in-kernel
> sandboxing mechanism.  Assuming I'm not totally misunderstanding both
> sysjail and FreeBSD jails (and admittedly I have much more research to
> do), I'm curious as to whether the OpenBSD project has ever considered
> implementing a full operating system-level virtualization technology
> like FreeBSD jails.  I'd also be interested to hear any arguments for
> or against implementing such jails in OpenBSD.  I have not conducted a
> search of the mailing list archives beyond looking for discussion of
> sysjail, so I apologize if this has already been thoroughly discussed
> in another thread.  Thanks for your time and I really appreciate the
> work you guys do in making a very high-quality and secure operating
> system freely available.
>
> --
> -Dustin

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