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From: Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mbox -- looks sort of interesting
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:29:48
Message-Id: 52F9C351.1060004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] mbox -- looks sort of interesting by "Jason A. Donenfeld"
1 On 02/11/14 01:36, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
2 > Hey folks,
3 >
4 > Late night clicking-while-drooling, I came across something a few
5 > minutes ago that mildly piqued my interest -- mbox
6 > <http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/mbox/>. It's a sandbox that uses a
7 > combination of ptrace and seccomp bpf; neither ours nor exherbo's uses
8 > both of these together. The killer feature, for us, that's motivating
9 > me to write to this list, is that it creates a "shadow file system",
10 > and then has the option to commit the changes of that file system to
11 > the real file system, piece by piece, when the process is done. It
12 > made me think of some discussions we had at FOSDEM about Portage
13 > evolution and whatnot. I haven't looked at this tool past an initial
14 > glance, but it does look like interesting food for thought.
15
16 Sounds interesting, especially the "without special privileges" bit...
17
18 /haubi/