[geeks] Project Etude

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Francois Dion wrote:

>>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 12:42:38PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>>>> However, since the system ID is cached in (true) kernel memory, it's
>>>> shared across zones.  In fact, nothing you can do in a zone is
>>>> supposed to give you write access to it.
>>>
>>> You can't run the hostid hack within a zone?
>>
>> Nope, because it's cached in true kernel memory, which is not writable
>> from any but the global zone.
>
> One word: Dtrace

That works for programs that call sysinfo, not programs that sift
through kmem.

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