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Mostly that afaik a jail with sysvipc set isn't really isolated any more - it works, but defeats some of the purpose of using a jail in the first place?

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/59371/

Apparently this can(should?) be tweaked a bit since 11-release:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=&n=1

> allow.sysvipc A process within the jail has access to System V IPC primitives. This is deprecated in favor of the per-mod- ule parameters (see below). When this parameter is set, it is equivalent to setting sysvmsg, sysvsem, and sysvshm all to ``inherit''.

I interpret that as it still being the case that setting this to the (equivalent of) the deprecated setting, one looses much of the protection a jail normally gives.



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