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On 02/11/2014 11:36 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: |
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> Hey folks, |
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> Late night clicking-while-drooling, I came across something a few |
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> minutes ago that mildly piqued my interest -- mbox |
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> <http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/mbox/>. It's a sandbox that uses a |
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> combination of ptrace and seccomp bpf; neither ours nor exherbo's uses |
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> both of these together. The killer feature, for us, that's motivating |
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> me to write to this list, is that it creates a "shadow file system", |
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> and then has the option to commit the changes of that file system to |
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> the real file system, piece by piece, when the process is done. It |
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> made me think of some discussions we had at FOSDEM about Portage |
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> evolution and whatnot. I haven't looked at this tool past an initial |
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> glance, but it does look like interesting food for thought. |
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> Jason |
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Looks interesting. It reminds me somewhat of autodep[1]. |
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[1]: http://soc.dev.gentoo.org/~bay/autodep/intro.html |
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